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Europeans introduced western honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) to the Americas in the early 1600s.
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Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
It is called Apis mellifera, the Western honey bee, said Jamie Ellis, a professor of honey bee research at the University of Florida.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 23 June 2025
An estimated 62 percent of commercial colonies perished, according to a survey by the nonprofit Project Apis m.
—Joanna Thompson, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
That yellow-and-black-striped, hive-living, honey-making critter—formally Apis mellifera—hails from Europe.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
The nonprofit Project Apis m., which supports the beekeeping community, found that commercial beekeepers in the U.S. reported an average loss of 62% of their colonies.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Thomson installed the hives with Apis mellifera ligustica, Italian honey bees.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
Scientists typically refer to them as Africanized bees because the swarm was initiated by Apis mellifera scutellata, an African subspecies of the European honeybee imported to Brazil from South Africa and Tanzania in 1956 to introduce their heat tolerance genes.
—Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
Beekeepers had anecdotally observed this behavior among Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica), but no one had done a scientific analysis.
—Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
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Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
It is called Apis mellifera, the Western honey bee, said Jamie Ellis, a professor of honey bee research at the University of Florida.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 23 June 2025
An estimated 62 percent of commercial colonies perished, according to a survey by the nonprofit Project Apis m.
—Joanna Thompson, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
That yellow-and-black-striped, hive-living, honey-making critter—formally Apis mellifera—hails from Europe.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
The nonprofit Project Apis m., which supports the beekeeping community, found that commercial beekeepers in the U.S. reported an average loss of 62% of their colonies.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Thomson installed the hives with Apis mellifera ligustica, Italian honey bees.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
Scientists typically refer to them as Africanized bees because the swarm was initiated by Apis mellifera scutellata, an African subspecies of the European honeybee imported to Brazil from South Africa and Tanzania in 1956 to introduce their heat tolerance genes.
—Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
Beekeepers had anecdotally observed this behavior among Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica), but no one had done a scientific analysis.
—Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
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“Apis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Apis. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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