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Apis mellifera male (Hym. Apidae) emerging from its larval cell in bee hive, 20.IV.2007, Watermael-Boitsfort (B). Thanks to Marc Wollast for introducing me to his beloved bees!
I volontari di Greenpeace hanno organizzato oggi attività di sensibilizzazione in 21 città italiane per chiedere il bando dei pesticidi dannosi per api e altri impollinatori, l’estensione del bando europeo ai neonicotinoidi e investimenti in pratiche agricole sostenibili. Indossando dei costumi, i volontari dell’organizzazione ambientalista hanno inoltre rappresentato le api costrette a lasciare il loro habitat naturale per colpa dei pesticidi che mettono a rischio la loro sopravvivenza.
Picture taken 1/7/23
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Apis mellifera worker (Hym. Apidae) foraging on Tradescantia pallida 'Purpurea' (Commelinaceae), 25.iii.2009, Kisantu (DRCongo). Thanks to L Pauwels & P Latham for the ID of the plant!
Systems Garden, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus, City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hymenoptera: Apidae [Honeybee]
This image represents one in a series of biodiversity photorecords gathered as part of the insect ecology, biodiversity and conservation project The Little Things that Run the City.
This project was co-funded by The City of Melbourne and RMIT University, and is part of the core research being conducted by the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Findings from this project have contributed to the City of Melbourne's Nature in the City urban ecology and biodiversity strategy.
Honey bee cleaning himself on the edge of a trowel after taking a nose dive into a pot of compost. Perked up and flew off soon after
I volontari di Greenpeace hanno organizzato oggi attività di sensibilizzazione in 21 città italiane per chiedere il bando dei pesticidi dannosi per api e altri impollinatori, l’estensione del bando europeo ai neonicotinoidi e investimenti in pratiche agricole sostenibili. Indossando dei costumi, i volontari dell’organizzazione ambientalista hanno inoltre rappresentato le api costrette a lasciare il loro habitat naturale per colpa dei pesticidi che mettono a rischio la loro sopravvivenza.
Whitespotted Surgeonfish, Acanthurus guttatus & Christmas Wrasse,Thalassoma trilobatum
Shark's Cove, O'ahu
Scientific Name: Apis mellifera scutellata
Common name: Africanized Honeybee or Killer Bee
Date photo was taken: 4/10/2012
Place photo was taken: Point Loma, San Diego, CA
HTHMA Garden
Apis mellifera worker (Hym. Apidae) collecting pollen from a coffee flower, 20.xii.2018, Kakamega forest, Kenya.
Kereta Api Taksaka berpapasan dengan Kereta Api Karacibon Service di Desa Rancamaya, Kecamatan Cilongok, Kabupaten Banyumas
Apis cerana, or the Asiatic honey bee (or the Eastern honey bee), is a small honey bee found in southern and southeastern Asia, including all the countries of the Himalayan region (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan) as well as Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam, and probably other countries. This species is also known as the Himalayan hive honeybee. This species is a sister species of Apis koschevnikovi, and both are in the same subgenus as the Western (European) honeybee, Apis mellifera.
Apis cerana is still found in the wild, where it nests in tree holes, fallen logs, and crevices, but it is also one of the few bee species that can be domesticated. Like the Western honey bee, Apis cerana is kept by farmers for honey production and pollination. Traditionally the bees were kept in log hives, now being replace by wooden boxes with fixed frames. The Apis cerana bee size is similar or somewhat smaller than Apis mellifera, and they also have a more prominent abdominal stripes. Their honey yield is smaller, because they form smaller colonies and partly because they hav yet to benefit from the in most areas the selective breeding programs that have produced modern day Apis mellifera. In folk medicine, their beeswax is used to treat and heal wounds.
Apis cerana is found at altitudes from sea level up to 3,500 metres in areas with appropriate flora and climate. This bee species has adapted to adverse climatic conditions and can survive extreme fluctuations in temperature and long periods of rainfall. It is unique in its ability to survive temperatures as low as -0.1ºC, a temperature lethal for other bee species (Apis mellifera).
Farmers in the Himalayan region benefit directly from honey and other bee products from Apis cerana, which are a source of income, nutrition, and medicine. The bees are also important pollinators, ensuring the pollination of mountain crops, especially early flowering fruit and vegetables. It is available when temperatures are still too low for the exotic Apis mellifera species, and still flies under cool and cloudy conditions. As with other wild bees, Apis cerana also plays an important role in combating soil degradation by pollinating wild plants and ensuring that more biomass is available to be returned to the soil.
Beekeeping with Apis cerana has become an important source of income for mountain farmers, especially the poor and marginalised, as it is easy to practise. There is no capital outlay as the bee does not need to be fed, fumigated, or migrated to warmer areas in winter, and is mostly kept in traditional log hives. It also produces high-quality honey and its wax is organic and natural.
Honey production is lower than for Apis mellifera, but is being increased through a focused queen breeding and selection programme.
The total number of Apis cerana colonies kept by farmers is unknown, but reports indicate an estimated 120,000 colonies in Nepal, and 1.5 million in the Himalayan region of China, about 780,000 of them in Yunnan province.
Apis cerana is a natural host to the mite Varroa jacobsoni and the parasite Nosema ceranae, both serious pests of the Western honey bee. Having coevolved with these parasites, A. cerana exhibits more careful grooming than A. mellifera, and thus has an effective defense mechanism against Varroa that keeps the mite from devastating colonies. Other than defensive behaviors such as these, much of their behavior and biology (at least in the wild) is very similar to that of A. mellifera.
Workers do not re-use old wax as often as in other bee species and therefore their brood capping looks much lighter than those of Apis mellifera; they usually tear down old combs and build new wax constantly.
Thermal defense: When an Apis cerana hive is invaded by the Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), about 500 Japanese honey bees (A. cerana japonica) surround the hornet and vibrate their flight muscles until the temperature is raised to 47°C (117°F), heating the hornet to death, but keeping the temperature still under their own lethal limit (48-50°C). European honey bees (A. mellifera) lack this behavior.
Focus stacked image consisting of 15-25 images. Produced using Helicon Remote and Helicon Focus, using a Canon 7D with 100mm f2.8 macro lens and a 250D closeup filter.
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"R.Y. Bailey preparing land w/ tractor and discs for planting at the API Agricultural Experiment Station. Lee Co., AL"
Date: 1928-04-12
City, County, State: Lee Co. (Ala.)
Collection: ACES (Alabama Cooperative Extension System) Records, RG 71: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1920s-1960s
Repositor: Auburn University. Special Collections and Archives
Rights: This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archive@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.
LC Subject Headings:
Agricultural extension work -- Alabama
Agricultural extension workers -- Alabama
Agricultural machinery -- Alabama
Agriculture -- Alabama
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Auburn University -- History
Crops -- Alabama
Cultivators -- Alabama
Farm mechanization -- Alabama
Farm tractors -- Alabama
Farmers -- Alabama
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