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Western honey bee

Apis mellifera

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

Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa ngeke kukulimaze kakhulu.

Izinyosi, imivi nama-hornet

UkuhlabaSidla: Izitshalo

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKungaba buhlungu ngempela, kodwa cishe akukaze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Ihlala

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

I-Yurophu, I-Afrika, I-Asia

Ekhaya

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

Ubude

1.3 cm (0.5 in)3

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Ijubane eliphezulu

cishe 25 km/h (16 mph)

Ukundiza: ijubane elijwayelekile lokundiza kwenyosi esebenzayo

Sidlani?

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

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

Indlela yokusibona

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

Amandla obuthi

Ukuhlaba

Ubuthi buphuma ngodosi.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKungaba buhlungu ngempela, kodwa cishe akukaze kube kubi kakhulu.

Senzani uma sesabile?

Queens and workers defend the hive with their stingers.1

Uma sihlaba

Khipha udosi lwenyosi ngokulukhuhla bese upholisa indawo.
Uma umuntu ephefumula kanzima, ebuso noma emphinjeni kuvuvukala, noma ezizwa ezoquleka, lesi yisimo esiphuthumayo se-allergy: shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo futhi usebenzise ipeni lakhe le-adrenaline uma enalo.

Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala

Hlala uphephile

Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Uma sikuhlaba: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.

Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile

Kuphi emhlabeni?

I-Afrika I-Asia I-Yurophu INyakatho Melika INingizimu Melika I-Australia ne-Oceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

sincane kangangokuthi singahlala ezinzipheni zakhosingandiza siwele inkundla yebhola yonke ngemizuzwana engu-15

Western honey bee mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?

Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.

Sishesha kangakanani?

Impukane yasendlini cishe 7 km/h (4.4 mph)

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

Umuntu ogijima ngejubane cishe 37 km/h (23 mph)

kuhle ukwazi

Amaqiniso

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

Umqothuli wezinganekwane

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

Iqiniso: 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

Okongoti bobuthi

Igama lesayensi: Apis mellifera
Iqembu: Izinyosi, imivi nama-hornet
Umndeni: Apidae2
Ukuhleleka: Hymenoptera
Amazwekazi: I-Yurophu, I-Afrika, I-Asia
Izinsana: 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
Simo saso endle: Data Deficient (IUCN Red List, as of 2025)1
Ingozi ebantwini: 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Lapho amaqiniso evela khona

Western honey bee (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Apis mellifera (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
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