Honey Bee Apis unicolor

Honey bee Apis Apis unicolor or adansonii is widespread in Africa, and the Sahara Desert in the north to South Africa in the Peninsula, and from the West Coast of Africa to the East Coast of Africa. Honeybees can be grown well in Africa.Results are very good honey. In terms of numbers, the result is much more than the European honey bee produced. However, its very aggressive, harder to maintain, very hard, and likes to maintain the nest.
1956 African honeybees put into Brazil with the aim bred with European honey bees. By accident, the fertilized queen bees apart with his workers, so the breed into wild colonies. Now the African honey bees in Brazil has grown to be the bees 'killer'. Animal and human victims.African honey bees can be divided into four subspecies.
1. Unicolor apis fasciata
The honey bees are in Egypt. Body reddish yellow ribbon. Part puffy and shiny fur like silver.
2. Apis unicolor fresei
The honey bees are in the high mountain regions of Africa. It was black.
3. Apis unicolor intermissa
The honey bees are in Tunisia, Malta, and North Africa. Also bred in South Africa. It was black with ribbon and feathers gray gembungnya
4. Apis unicolor unicolor
The honey bees are in Madagascar. The color is black with no stripes. Its fur is gray
E. Apis Florea
This bee is a honey bee species of the genus Apis are small in size. 0.9 cm in length. Life habitats in the brackish areas. Colonies make a nest of your palm. Results a little honey and candles. One colony was only able to build a nest strokes is about 10 cm2 were hanging in the branches of a tree. Results 61-200 grams of honey per hive.The honey bees serve as pollinators small flowers.
F. Apis koschevnikovi
This little honey bee Apis indica similar. Wild life in Borneo. This bee has not been cultivated.
G. Apis andrenofromis
This little honey bee Apis Florea similar. Wild life and can not be cultivated due to the open nature of life takes place. Economically, the results do not mean honey.
H. Melipona thoracica
This small insect commonly called wasp resin. 0.7-0.8 cm in length. Wide expanse of wings about 2 cm. Her body was covered in black short hair. Upper surface brown toraksnya. Thin dreamy brown wings.
The bees make their nests in the holes existing in nature, such as wood holes, trees, rock crevice, and the hole wall.
Life form small colonies. Per colony consisting of tens to hundreds of individuals. The nest is made of resin. Wall in a den lined with black wax. In the nest room stored honey brown very penetrating odor.
Very widely spread in the tropics. Very useful role as insect pollination of fruits, palm, and other flowering trees.

I. Trigona sp.
In the local language of bees is called klanceng or bells (Java), teuweul (Sunda), gala-gala or bees wax. Size is very small. Function as pollinators little flowers.
This insect makes nest in tree holes, cracks in the walls, and bamboo hole in the house. Residence of a dark hole. Available to place in and out of a small hole 1 cm long gluten-protected. Place of residence is made up of several parts. Each section is used to store honey, pollen stores, spawning, and where its larvae. In the middle there are the essays ball containing eggs, larvae, and pupae. In the corner there is a little balls blackish to store honey and pollen.
In addition to looking for nectar and pollen, the bees love to take the sap of trees (especially from logging scars) to cover the gap nest.
Worker bees are black, big-headed and sharp jaws to bite if disturbed enemy. The queen bee is very large belly and short winged. 3-4 times the size of a worker bee. Nature did not want to move where as very overweight and not very good at flying. They only moved when the nest was too old and ugly or candles too hard. Emigration to the place just nearby.
The bees produce honey and wax. The amount of honey produced little, sour taste, and is often used to cure canker sores. The candle is used to membantik. Known as klanceng night.This bee has a sting, not too fierce.

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