honey bee
Apis mellifera Linnaeus
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| Taxonomic Rank: Hexapoda (including Insecta) > Hymenoptera > Apidae > Apis |
| Common Name Synonym(s): honeybee |
| Category: Insects: Nectar and Pollen Feeding Insects |
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| Image | Descriptor | Description |
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| 0001007 | Feature(s) | in pine cavity |
| 0001008 | Feature(s) | in hardwood cavity |
| 0001009 | Feature(s) | open air hive |
| 0001010 | Feature(s) | houses |
| 0001011 | Adult(s) | leaving its stinger |
| 0001012 | Damage | two bees are allowed to sting an arm, wet table salt is applied to one sting site. |
| 0001013 | Damage | two bees are allowed to sting an arm, wet table salt is applied to one sting site; one hour later |
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| 1203001 | Adult(s) | in blossom |
| 1203006 | Equipment | hives |
| 1203008 | Adult(s) | worker secreting wax |
| 1203015 | Feature(s) | queen cell |
| 1203018 | Adult(s) | workers on frame |
| 1203019 | Adult(s) | workers in hive |
| 1203022 | Harvesting | frame of sealed honey |
| 1203031 | Adult(s) | on flower |
| 1203063 | Adult(s) | close-up of bee in blossom |
| 1203091 | Adult(s) | |
| 1203121 | Adult(s) | |
| 1203135 | Adult(s) | workers and queen bee on comb |
| 1203153 | Adult(s) | bees on apple blossoms |
| 1203165 | Equipment | queen yard |
| 1203170 | Damage | bees killed by pesticides |
| 1203172 | Adult(s) | |
| 1203193 | Adult(s) | |
| 1224044 | Adult(s) | taking nectar through robbery hole. |
| 1224081 | Adult(s) | on Sparkleberry |
| 1224082 | Adult(s) | on Sparkleberry |
| 1224136 | Adult(s) | taking nectar from flower |
| 1224202 | Adult(s) | Native Vaccinium elliotti. |
| 1224203 | Adult(s) | on Vaccinium elliotti (Blueberry). |
| 1224210 | Adult(s) | honey bee on superberry |
| 1224211 | Adult(s) | on Mayhaw. |
| 1224212 | Adult(s) | |
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| 1227114 | Adult(s) | |
| 1238069 | Feature(s) | Nest in hollow branch |
| 1242067 | Adult(s) | |
| 1243092 | Feature(s) | Frame of capped honey. |
| 1243093 | Feature(s) | Workers over brood area. |
| 1243094 | Damage | Comb produced behind wall. |
| 1243095 | Feature(s) | Comb produced on tree limb. |
| 1247028 | Feature(s) | Open air nest |
| 1305005 | Adult(s) | |
| 1307035 | logs used as a bee hive | |
| 1319001 | Inspection | ARS geneticist Tom Rinderer (right foreground) and beekeeping cooperator Steve Bernard, along with ARS associates Tony Stelzer and Warren Kelley (background, L-R) of the Baton Rouge laboratory, inspect colonies of Russian and other honey bees. |
| 1319003 | Research | On Marsh Island, Louisiana, an isolated ARS research facility used for producing pure stocks of Russian bees, technician Gary Delatte prepares hives for transport. |
| 1322052 | Research | For centuries, beekeeping has been a traditional part of Mexican agriculture and a reliable source of income in rural areas. Scientists in the United States have closely followed the arrival of Africanized honey bees and two species of parasitic mites that have created hive management problems and reduced honey production. |
| 1361208 | Damage | A small welp from a sting |
| 1361210 | Treatment | Insect bite kit |
| 1361218 | Feature(s) | open air hive |
| 1366074 | Adult(s) | |
| 1403053 | Feature(s) | Swarm in a tree. Tifton, Georgia 1984 |
| 1403054 | Feature(s) | Swarm in a tree. Tifton, Georgia 1984 |
| 1454035 | Adult(s) | |
| 1673001 | People | bee beard |
| 1673002 | People | bee beard |
| 2116051 | Adult(s) | Showing pollen sacs |
| 2116052 | Adult(s) | Showing full pollen sacs |
| 2131078 | Adult(s) | |
| 2132082 | Management | Extracting a hive from inside a building wall. |
| 2132083 | Management | Extracting a hive from inside a building wall |
| 2132084 | Management | placing honeycomb from recently extracted wild hive into a bucket |
| 2132085 | Management | Extracting a hive from inside a building wall |
| 2132086 | Management | Showing brood comb from recently extracted wild hive laid out on a foundation frame. |
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| 2148052 | Equipment | Smoker and hives |
| 2158019 | Adult(s) | |
| 2186092 | Adult(s) | |
| 2189013 | Feature(s) | 3 pound package of bees |
| 2189014 | Management | Installing a package of bees |
| 2189015 | Management | Installing a package of bees |
| 2189016 | Management | Installing a package of bees |
| 2189017 | Management | Spraying a package of bees with sugar-water |
| 2189018 | Management | Moving a hive that has a laying worker |
| 2189019 | Management | Lighting a smoker |
| 2189020 | Management | Moving a hive that has a laying worker |
| 2189021 | Management | Shaking all of the bees off of a frame to rid the hive of a laying worker |
| 2189022 | Adult(s) | Queen in a cage |
| 2189023 | Management | Placing queen package in hive with newly established package of bees |
| 2189024 | Management | Queen cage in between frames |
| 2189025 | Management | Adding frames to hive after installing a package of bees and new queen |
| 2189066 | Feature(s) | Queen yard |
| 2189068 | Feature(s) | Queen yard |
| 2511048 | Adult(s) | |
| 2734045 | Adult(s) | Small swarm on pecan limb. Tifton, Georgia USA |
| 2734047 | Adult(s) | Small swarm on pecan limb. Tifton, Georgia USA |
| 3943071 | Feature(s) | Beehives used to collect wildflower honey, Ziarat Forest. |
| 4060022 | Feature(s) | hive on red gum in Cary, North Carolina |
| 4065094 | Feature(s) | two Masai beehives, near Masi Mara, Kenya, Africa |
| 5007051 | Adult(s) | on honeycomb |
| 5019033 | Adult(s) | |
| 5019036 | Adult(s) | |
| 5025047 | Adult(s) | Adult honey bee removing bee prepupa after small hive beetle invasion; June, 2005 |
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| 5109035 | Adult(s) | on a weed stem |
| 5110038 | Adult(s) | |
| 5172096 | Adult(s) | on Coccinia grandis flower |
| 5172097 | Adult(s) | on Cirsium vulgare flower |
| 5173011 | Adult(s) | pinned |
| 5174034 | Adult(s) | Newly emerged honey bee, Apis mellifera, the subject of genome sequencing work aimed at improving bee traits and management |
| 5174035 | Adult(s) | Honey bee on a DNA fragment analysis map. The honey bee genome is being studied to improve reproduction, behavior, disease resistance, and more. |
| 5179094 | Feature(s) | hives |
| 5179096 | Demonstration | maintaining hives |
| 5179097 | Demonstration | working hives |
| 5179098 | Demonstration | working hives |
| 5179099 | Demonstration | working active hives |
| 5179100 | Demonstration | active hive |
| 5180001 | Demonstration | active hives |
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| 5302080 | Adult(s) | Adult workers foraging |
| 5302081 | Adult(s) | Adult worker foraging |
| 5303079 | Field | Small bee yard protected by electric fence to deter bear predation |
| 5304031 | Adult(s) | Adult collecting honeydew from oak lecanium scale |
| 5310093 | Adult(s) | hindwing; Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310094 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310095 | Adult(s) | forewing; Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310096 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310097 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310098 | Adult(s) | hindwing; Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310099 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5310100 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311001 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311002 | Adult(s) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311003 | Pupa(e) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311004 | Pupa(e) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311005 | Pupa(e) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311006 | Pupa(e) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5311007 | Pupa(e) | Australia North Queensland - Kuranda, Oct 2005. |
| 5342073 | Adult(s) | pollinating cucumber |
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| 5363705 | Facility | A facility for keeping honeybees. |
| 5363706 | Facility | Some honeybee keeping facilities. |
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| 5385929 | Adult(s) | There have been a lot more light colored bee's than the normal black |
| 5385930 | Adult(s) | Light colored bee |
| 5385931 | Adult(s) | Light colored bee |
| 5385932 | Adult(s) | Light colored bee |
| 5385933 | Adult(s) | Normal dark colored bee |
| 5385934 | Adult(s) | Light colored bee |
| 5385935 | Adult(s) | Light colored bee |
| 5385936 | Adult(s) | Normal dark colored bee |
| 5387757 | Adult(s) | on sicklepod |
| 5389829 | Infestation | Honeybee infestation in a living room ceiling - picture taken prior to opening up. This photo shows owner's futile attempt at sealing off the bees from the interior of the home. |
| 5389830 | Feature(s) | Exposed honeybee hive in living room ceiling. |
| 5389831 | Feature(s) | A dying honeybee hive located in the attic of the Fort Jesup State Park's museum. Prior use of pesticides on the outside of the building killed a majority of the bees. Note the fallen comb. |
| 5389832 | Feature(s) | Honeybee hive in ceiling of apartment. The bees had been previously killed and the hive had become infested with wax moths. Note the center portion had broken down and was being consumed by the moths. Honey had begun dripping from the combs and was working it's way through the ceiling. |
| 5389833 | Feature(s) | The honeybees had established a colony behind the siding of this home. |
| 5393469 | Adult(s) | Bumble bee Bombus huntii and honey bee visiting the same flower |
| 5403769 | Feature(s) | bee hive in barbque |
| 5403770 | Feature(s) | bee hive in barbque |
| 5403771 | Feature(s) | bee hive in barbque |
| 5403772 | Feature(s) | bee hive in barbque |
| 5403773 | Feature(s) | bee hive in tire |
| 5403774 | Feature(s) | bee hive in tire |
| 5403775 | Feature(s) | bee hive in tire |
| 5403776 | Feature(s) | bee hive in covered tire |
| 9006037 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006038 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006039 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006040 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006041 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that had formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006042 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9006043 | Feature(s) | A colony of honeybees that formed on a tree limb that was in a very overgrown thicket and well protected from the elements. It is about one foot across and 1 1/2 feet deep. |
| 9009013 | Management | Removing wood to gain access to a wild hive |
| 9009014 | Management | Brood comb from recently extracted hive laid out on foundation |
| 9009015 | Management | Removing a hive from inside a building wall |
| 9009016 | Management | Removing a wild hive from inside a building wall |
| 9009017 | Management | Removing a wild hive from inside a building wall |
| 9009018 | Management | Placing brood comb from a recently extracted wild hive into frames |
| 9009019 | Management | Placing brood comb from a recently extracted wild hive into frames |
| 9009020 | Management | Brood comb from a recently extracted wild hive laid out in a frame |
