Word: mellifera
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Scientists so far have not located any new invaders, and a panel of experts suggested that the killer bees' aggressively unfriendly personalities will be blunted as they mate with more docile domestic bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they...
LIFE IS DIFFICULT for the world's trillions of members of the species Apis mellifera. The lot of the common honeybee worker is a sorry one. Her life is a tale of oppression...
...group of third-and fourth-graders swarmed through the Vermont statehouse last January and persuaded legislators to designate Apis mellifera (the honeybee) as the state's official insect. Argued one of the young lobbyists: "Bees are industrious, just like us Vermonters." The bill was duly signed into law by Governor Richard A. Snelling...
...loosed the troublesome bee in the first place. In 1956 Warwick Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist in the state of Sāo Paulo, decided to breed the perfect honey-producing bee. He wanted to combine the best attributes of the hard-working but highly aggressive African bee (Apis mellifera adansonii) with gentler but lazier European strains. Before the hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees accidentally escaped, mated with native bees, flourished and spread. The offspring, known as Brazilian honey bees, are precisely what Kerr wanted to avoid; they have inherited none of the redeeming qualities of European bees...
...other basic dance steps-the "round dance," conducted without posterial shimmying, and the "sickle dance." a semicircular pattern accompanied by a slightly wagging rear end-that locate the pollen. Moreover, he added, when an individually marked bee of a primitive species was introduced into the hive of an Apis mellifera, the breakdown of communication was almost complete...