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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

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

E utlwisa botlhoko felaE a utlwisa botlhoko, mme ga e kitla e go gobatsa thata.

Dinotshe, diwasepe le dihonete

Go tlhabaE ja: Dimela

Kotsi go batho: E botlhokoE ka utlwisa botlhoko tota, mme go seoka thata gore e nne masisi.

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 tshela kwa

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

Yuropa, Aforika, Asia

Gae

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

Boleele

1,3 cm (0,5 in)3

bogolo jo bo tlwaelegileng jwa e e godileng

Lebelo le le kwa godimo

e ka nna 25 km/h (16 mph)

Go fofa: lebelo le le tlwaelegileng la go fofa la notshe ya mmereki

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

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

Tsela ya go e lemoga

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

Maatla a botlhole

Go tlhaba

Botlhole bo tswa ka lemao le le tlhabang.

E kotsi go le kae go batho?

Kotsi go batho: E botlhokoE ka utlwisa botlhoko tota, mme go seoka thata gore e nne masisi.

E dira eng fa e tshogile?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Fa e tlhaba

Ntsha lemao la notshe ka go le kgwaratla, mme o tsidifatse lefelo leo.
Fa motho a hema ka bothata, sefatlhego kgotsa mometso o ruruga, kgotsa a ikutlwa a tla idibala, ke tshoganyetso ya aletshi: leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso mme o dirise pene ya gagwe ya adrenaline fa a na le yone.

Ka gale leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Se ke kaelo e e akaretsang ya thuso ya ntlha, ga se kgakololo ya bongaka. Motheo wa thuso ya ntlha

Nna o babalesegile

O se ka wa ama, wa tshwara kgotsa wa tshwenya phologolo ya naga, le fa e le e nnye, le fa e lebega e robetse kgotsa e sule.
E fe sebaka. Fa o kopana le yone, ritibala, boela morago ka bonya mme o e tlogele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yone.
Fa e nngwe e go tlhaba: ritibala, o se ka wa tshikinyega, leletsa nomoro ya gago ya tshoganyetso (112, 000, 911) kgotsa o ye bookelong ka bonako. Gopola gore e ne e lebega jang, setshwantsho se a thusa.

Ga e go batle. E dirisa botlhole jwa yone go tshwara dijo kgotsa go itshireletsa, mme e rata go iphitlha go feta. Go le gontsi ka go nna o babalesegile

Kae mo lefatsheng?

Aforika Asia Yuropa Amerika Bokone Amerika Borwa Australia le Oceania

E kgolo go le kae?

E telele go le kae?

e nnye mo e ka nnang mo lenaleng la gagoe ka fofa go kgabaganya lebala lotlhe la kgwele ya dinao ka metsotswana e le 15

Western honey bee e kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?

Ke dipalo fela mo sefetleng sa gago (browser). Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.

E bonako go le kae?

Ntsi ya ntlo e ka nna 7 km/h (4,4 mph)

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

Motho yo o tabogang ka bonako e ka nna 37 km/h (23 mph)

go botlhokwa go itse

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

Mosenyi wa ditlhamane

Tlhamane: 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

Ya baitseanape ba botlhole

Leina la saense: Apis mellifera
Setlhopha: Dinotshe, diwasepe le dihonete
Lelapa: Apidae2
Lekoko: Hymenoptera
Dikontinente: Yuropa, Aforika, 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
Seemo sa yone kwa nageng: Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Kotsi go batho: 2 / 5: E botlhoko3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): maina le thulaganyo ya mefuta.
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