The honey you buy in the store is made by Honey Bees. There are 7 different types of honey bees including: Apis andreniformi, Apis florea, Apis dorsata,Apis cerana, Apis koschevnikovi,Apis mellifera, andApis nigrocincta.
The honey you buy in the store is made by Honey Bees. There are 7 different types of honey bees including: Apis andreniformi, Apis florea, Apis dorsata,Apis cerana, Apis koschevnikovi,Apis mellifera, andApis nigrocincta.
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Apis is the genus name for all honey bees.
Specifically, the honey bee's scientific name includes at least two names. One is the genus name. The other is the species, of which there are seven: andreniformis, cerana, dorsata, florea, koschevikovni, mellifera, and nigrocincta.
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Apiculture focuses on species of bees that are social and live
and work together, because that is necessary for bee farming. In
the Western world, the predominant species of honey bees used for
apiculture is the apis mellifera.
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Apis cerana, or the Asiatic honey bee, is a species of honey bee
found in southern and southeastern Asia, such as China, Pakistan,
India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea
and Solomon Islands.
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Andreniformis, cerana, dorsata, florea, koschevnikovi, mellifera, are nigrocincta are the scientific names for the honey bee species.
Specifically, an animal's scientific name consists of at least two parts. The first part is the genus, which is Apis in terms of the honey bee. The second is the species, which will be one of the seven names given above. The complete name therefore will be Apis andreniformis, A. cerana, A. dorsata, A. florea, A. koschevnikovi, A. mllifera, or A. nigrocincta depending upon the honey bee in question.