European honey bee

The European honey bee or western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the main species of honey bee. The genus Apis is Latin for "bee", and mellifera comes from Greek melli- meaning "honey" and ferre "to bear". So, the scientific name means "honey-bearing bee". In 1758 Carolus Linnaeus named the bees as Apis mellifera. However, he later found out that bees do not bear honey, but they actually bear nectar. Because of this, he tried to change it to Apis mellifica ("honey-making bee") later.

Workers do a waggle dance in the beehive to tell the others where they have found nectar; Karl von Frisch discovered this.

 Other websites 
Flight of Honey Bee finally understood 
Honey Bee Pheromones
Cornwall Honey Beepedia
BeeSource 
Honey Bee Apis mellifera diagnostic pictures, descriptions, natural history
Brother Adams On-line book
Beekeeping explained by the Food and Agriculture Organization
Types of hives by FAO
Interactive 3D flash presentation of Honey beehive  from PBS
Brainy Bees Think Abstractly
Digital library of Beekeeping 
Anatomy of the honeybee by the FAO
Apis mellifera pomonella, a new honey bee subspecies from Central Asia;  Apidologie 34 (2003) 367-375; Sheppard and Meixner
Origin of honeybees from the Yucatan peninsula inferred from mitochondrial DNA analysis; Molecular Ecology (2001)10, 1347-1355 
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture  ed. by L. H. Bailey (1911), Vol. III—Animals, "Bees," including a history of the literature related to European honey bees in the United States.

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