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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

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

Inauma tuInauma, lakini haitakudhuru vibaya.

Nyuki, nyigu na mavu

KudungwaHula: Mimea

Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

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

Anaishi

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

Ulaya, Afrika, Asia

Nyumbani

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

Urefu

1.3 cm (0.5 in)3

ukubwa wa kawaida wa mnyama mzima

Kasi ya juu

takriban km 25 kwa saa (maili 16 kwa saa)

Anayeruka: kasi ya kawaida ya kuruka ya nyuki mfanyakazi

Hula nini?

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

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

Jinsi ya kumtambua

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

Nguvu ya sumu

Kudungwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia mdungo.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

Hufanya nini akiogopa?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Akidunga

Kwangua mwiba wa nyuki na upoze mahali hapo.
Mtu akipata shida ya kupumua, uso au koo likivimba, au akijisikia kuzimia, hiyo ni dharura ya mzio: piga namba ya dharura na umtumie kalamu yake ya adrenalini kama anayo.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
Akikudunga: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Wapi duniani?

Afrika Asia Ulaya Amerika Kaskazini Amerika Kusini Australia na Oceania

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

mdogo kiasi cha kukaa juu ya ukucha wakoangeweza kuruka kuvuka uwanja mzima wa mpira kwa sekunde 15

Western honey bee ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

Inzi wa nyumbani takriban km 7 kwa saa (4.4 mph)

Western honey bee takriban km 25 kwa saa (16 mph)

Mtu anayekimbia kwa kasi takriban km 37 kwa saa (23 mph)

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

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

Kuvunja dhana potofu

Dhana potofu: A honey bee always dies soon after it stings.

Ukweli: 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

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi: Apis mellifera
Kundi: Nyuki, nyigu na mavu
Familia: Apidae2
Mpangilio: Hymenoptera
Mabara: Ulaya, Afrika, Asia
Watoto: 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
Hali yake porini: Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Hatari kwa watu: 2 / 5: Inauma3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
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