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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. Colonial flying insect of genus Apis For other uses, see Honey bee (disambiguation). Honey bee Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Western honey bee on the bars of a horizontal top-bar hive Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia ...
Family Halictidae Large format diagnostic photos, information. Everything About the Sweat Bee - Description and photo of the sweat bee. Image Gallery from Gembloux Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine; BugGuide – Search: Halictidae (North American species only). Online identification guides for eastern North American Halictidae
Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees.The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for honey production), carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees, and a number of other less widely known groups.
Hopkins' bioclimatic law states that in North America east of the Rockies, a 130-m (400-foot) increase in elevation, a 4° change in latitude North (444.48 km), or a 10° change in longitude East (two-thirds of a time zone) will cause a biological event to occur four days later in the spring or four days earlier in the fall. [1]
Bombus pensylvanicus, the American bumblebee, is a threatened species of bumblebee native to North America. It occurs in eastern Canada , throughout much of the Eastern United States , and much of Mexico .
“The process of documenting bee biodiversity started centuries ago, but scientists are still discovering new species all the time” said James Hung, OU assistant professor of biology and co ...
About 28% of North American bees are considered threatened species, too. To be sure, the era of bee colony collapse is still not behind us. Many factors, like climate change, are big threats.
The species is believed to have originated in Africa [9] or Asia, [10] and it spread naturally through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. [8] Humans are responsible for its considerable additional range, introducing European subspecies into North America (early 1600s), [11] South America, Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Asia. [12]