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honeybee
insect
Also known as: Apini, honey bee
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Animals & Nature
- Also spelled:
- honey bee
- Key People:
- Charles Henry Turner
- Related Topics:
- Apis
- giant honeybee
- dwarf honeybee
- Koschevnikov’s bee
- black dwarf honeybee
honeybee, (tribe Apini), any of a group of insects in the family Apidae (order Hymenoptera) that in a broad sense includes all bees that make honey. In a stricter sense, honeybee applies to any one of seven members of the genus Apis—and usually only the single species, Apis mellifera, the domestic honeybee. This species is also called the European honeybee or the western honeybee. All honeybees are social insects and live together in nests or hives. The honeybee is remarkable for the dancing movements it performs in the hive to communicate information to its fellow bees about the location, distance, ...(100 of 974 words)