Western honey bee
Apis mellifera
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Apis mellifera
- Class
- Insect
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Tiny (under 10 cm)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Forest, Towns and farms
- Conservation status
- Data deficient
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- A honey bee tells her hive mates the direction and distance of food with a waggle dance.
- A worker bee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q30034 · All animals · All entries