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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera
Nezvezita: The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera means 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', because the species makes honey.1
InongorwadzaInorwadza, asi haizokukuvadza zvakanyanya.
Nyuchi, mago nemahornet InobayaInodya: Zvirimwa
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

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

Inogara mu
Every continent except Antarctica. It first lived in Africa or Asia, and humans have carried it to many other regions.1
Yuropu, Afrika, Asia
Kumba
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
Kureba
1,3 cm (0,5 in)3
saizi yakajairika yemhuka yakura
Kumhanya kukuru
kunenge 25 km/h (16 mph)
Kubhururuka: kumhanya kwakajairika kwekubhururuka kwenyuchi inoshanda
Inodya chii?
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
Chaizvo!Mufananidzo waWestern honey bee
Western honey bee. Mufananidzo: Andreas Trepte. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Maziviro ayo

  • 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

Simba reuturu

Inobaya

Uturu hunobuda nerumbori.

Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?

Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.

Inoitei kana yatya?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Kana ikabaya

  • Bvisa rumbori rwenyuchi nekurikwenya, wotonhodza panzvimbo iyoyo.
  • Kana munhu achinetseka kufema, chiso kana huro zvichizvimba, kana achinzwa kunge ofenda, ndiyo njodzi yeallergy: fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi uye shandisa pen yake yeadrenaline kana anayo.

Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga

Gara wakachengeteka

  • Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
  • Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
  • Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.

Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka

Yakakura sei?

Yakareba zvakadii?

Western honey bee kunenge 1,3 cm kureba (0,5 in)Tsanga yemupunga kunenge 7 mm (0,3 in)Mari yesimbi ye1 euro kunenge 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
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Western honey bee yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?

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Inomhanya zvakadii?

zvakanaka kuziva

Chokwadi

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

Kuputsa ngano

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

Chokwadi: 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

Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu

Zita resainzi
Apis mellifera
Boka
Nyuchi, mago nemahornet
Mhuri
Apidae2
Odha
Hymenoptera
Makondinendi
Yuropu, Afrika, Asia
Vacheche
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
Iri kurarama sei musango
Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Ngozi kuvanhu
2 / 5: Inorwadza3

Kwakabva chokwadi

  1. Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
  3. Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.

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