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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

Davart il num: The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera means 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', because the species makes honey.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Avieuls, vespras e calabruns

PiztgadasMangia: Plantas

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

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

Viva en

Every continent except Antarctica. It first lived in Africa or Asia, and humans have carried it to many other regions.1

Europa, Africa, Asia

Pagina iniziala

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

Lunghezza

1,3 cm (0,5 in)3

grondezza tipica d'in animal creschì

Sveltezza maximala

circa 25 km/h (16 mph)

Sgular: sveltezza da sgular normala d'in avieul lavurant

Tge mangia el?

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

Foto da Western honey bee — Western honey bee. Foto: Andreas Trepte. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

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

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Sch'el piztga

Sgratta ora l'aguigl d'avieul e sfradenta il lieu.
Sche la persuna ha difficultads da respirar, unfladiras da la fatscha u da la gula, u sch'ella sa senta sco da svanir, è quai ina urgenza allergica: clama tes numer d'urgenza e duvra sia penna d'adrenalina, sch'ella ha ina.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè pitschen ch'el po seser sin tia unglapudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 15 secundas

Quant grond è Western honey bee cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Ina mustga da chasa circa 7 km/h (4,4 mph)

Western honey bee circa 25 km/h (16 mph)

Ina persuna che curra a tutta forza circa 37 km/h (23 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Destructur da mits

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

Vardad: 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

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Apis mellifera
Gruppa: Avieuls, vespras e calabruns
Famiglia: Apidae2
Urden: Hymenoptera
Continents: Europa, Africa, Asia
Poppins: 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
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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