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Natal Western honey bee
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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera
Ko faati e innde ndee: The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera means 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', because the species makes honey.1
Ina muusi tanIna muusi, kono ɓetataa ma no feewi.
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi JukkugolIna ñaama: Puɗɗi
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

The western honey bee is the most common of the honey bee species in the world. It lives in large family groups called colonies, which can hold tens of thousands of bees. Humans have helped it spread to every continent except Antarctica, and it is kept by beekeepers for its honey and for pollinating crops.1

Ina wuuri e
Every continent except Antarctica. It first lived in Africa or Asia, and humans have carried it to many other regions.1
Orop, Afrik, Aazi
Hello arano
Colonies live in hives, which beekeepers manage, and in natural nests such as hollow tree trunks. When a swarm leaves a colony, it travels some distance to find a new site, such as a hollow tree trunk.1
Juuteendi
1,3 cm (0,5 in)3
mawnude mawɗo heewɗo
Yaawde ɓurnde
hedde 25 km/h (16 mph)
Ina diwa: yaawde diwgol ñaaki gollotooɗo
Hol ko ngal ñaamata?
Worker bees gather nectar and pollen from flowers. They process nectar into honey, which is stored in the hive as food for the cold season.1
Goonga!Natal Western honey bee
Western honey bee. Natal: Andreas Trepte. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

No anndirte ngal

  • Queens are larger than workers and have a rounder, longer abdomen.1
  • Workers are smaller, infertile females that do most of the colony's work.1
  • Workers have a barbed stinger, which is used to defend the hive.1
  • Colonies can hold tens of thousands of bees, and a healthy midsummer hive may have 40,000 to 80,000 bees.1

Doole tooke

Jukkugol

Tooke ngal ina yaltira jukkirgal.

Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?

Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.

Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

So ina jukka

  • Ittu jukkirgal ñaaki ngal e ñiggude, ɓuuɓnu nokku oo.
  • So neɗɗo oo ina tampa e foofaade, yeeso walla daande mum ina ufoo, walla ina yiɗi yanaade, ɗum ko urgence allergi: noddu nimero urgence, huutoro stylo adrénaline mum so tawii ina jogii.

Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal

Reen hoore maa

  • Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
  • Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
  • So gooto jukkii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.

Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo

Hol to e aduna?

AfrikAaziOropAmerik RewoAmerik WorgoOstaraali e Oseyaani

Hol no mawniri?

Hol no juutiri?

Western honey bee hedde 1,3 cm juutde (0,5 in)Ɓiyngel maaro gooto hedde 7 mm (0,3 in)Pees 1 oro hedde 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
tokooso haa ina waawi jooɗaade e dow ceŋol hondu maaina waawi diwde taƴde nokku ball timmuɗo e segonde 15

Hol no Western honey bee mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?

Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.

Hol no yaawiri?

moƴƴi anndude

Humpito

1

A worker bee's stinger is barbed, unlike the stingers of bees of any other genus and of the queens of its species.1

2

The stinger and its venom sac can keep delivering venom after they are pulled free of the body.1

3

Young queens fight each other until only one remains, and the survivor becomes the new queen.1

4

A worker bee works in the hive for its first 20 days and then becomes a forager for the rest of its life.1

5

Honey is made by worker bees evaporating nectar until its moisture content is low enough to stop mould.1

6

Female bees make up 90% or more of the bees in a colony at any given time.1

Feññinoowo fenaande

Fenaande: A honey bee always dies soon after it stings.

Goonga: A bee does not always die soon after stinging. A bee usually dies after stinging a human or other mammal, because its barbed stinger often lodges in the skin and pulls free.1

Ngam ganduɓe tooke

Innde ganndal
Apis mellifera
Fedde
Ñaaki, ɗuggi e ɗuggi mawɗi
Ɓesngu
Apidae2
Ordre
Hymenoptera
Leyɗe mawɗe
Orop, Afrik, Aazi
Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
The queen lays a single egg into each cell of the honeycomb. The egg hatches into a legless, eyeless larva, which becomes a pupa and then an adult bee. Most of the colony's bees are female.1
Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Bone e yimɓe
2 / 5: Muusɗo3

Ɗo humpito iwri

  1. Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.

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