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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

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

E utlwisa bohloko feelaE a utlwisa bohloko, empa e ke ke ya o lematsa haholo.

Dinotshi, di-wasp le di-hornet

Ho hlabaE ja: Dimela

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

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

E phela

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

Yuropa, Afrika, Asia

Lapeng

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

Bolelele

1,3 cm (0,5 in)3

boholo bo tlwaelehileng ba e hodileng

Lebelo le phahameng

e ka bang 25 km/h (16 mph)

Ho fofa: lebelo le tlwaelehileng la ho fofa la notshi e sebetsang

E ja eng?

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

Ho e tseba jwang

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

Matla a chefo

Ho hlaba

Chefo e tswa ka lemao le hlabang.

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E bohlokoE ka utlwisa bohloko haholo, empa hoo e batlang e le kamehla ha e kotsi haholo.

E etsang ha e tshohile?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Haeba e hlaba

Kgwaratla lemao la notshi o le ntshe mme o pholise sebaka seo.
Haeba motho a hema ka thata, sefahleho kapa qoqotho di ruruha, kapa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshohanyetso ya aletjhi (allergy): letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso mme o sebedise pene ya hae ya adrenaline (adrenaline auto-injector) haeba a na le yona.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
Haeba e nngwe e o hlaba: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

Hokae lefatsheng?

Afrika Asia Yuropa Amerika Leboya Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

e nyenyane hoo e ka dulang lenalong la haoe ka fofa ho tshela lebala lohle la bolo ya maoto ka metsotswana e 15

Western honey bee e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

Ntsintsi ya ntlong e ka bang 7 km/h (4,4 mph)

Western honey bee e ka bang 25 km/h (16 mph)

Motho ya mathang ka matla e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

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

Ho senya ditshomo

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

Nnete: 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

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense: Apis mellifera
Sehlopha: Dinotshi, di-wasp le di-hornet
Lelapa: Apidae2
Tatelano: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Yuropa, Afrika, Asia
Masea: 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
Boemo ba yona naheng: Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Kotsi ho batho: 2 / 5: E bohloko3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
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