Apis mellifera 1269 - Apis mellifera

Moved

Moved from Apis.

… Beatriz Moisset, 13 August, 2009 - 3:42pm

Check the links here:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/3080

Apparently, the honey bee is the only Apis here. While this is probably oversimplifying, my take is that if it's not a honey bee, it's a native. (I have yet to be proven wrong in dozens of posts. But I'm always ready to learn.)

… Ron Hemberger, 21 December, 2008 - 4:14pm

Other introduced bees

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Family Megachilidae
Giant Resin Bee, Megachille sculpturalis. From Asia, 1990's
Wool Carder Bee, Anthidium manicatum. From Europe.
No common name, Anthidium oblongatum. From Europe, 1995.
No common name, Megachile lanata. From Ethiopian and Oriental regions.
Hornfaced bee, Osmia cornifrons. From Japan in 1977.
No common name, Osmia taurus. From Se Asia, recently.

Family Andrenidae
No common name, Andrena wilkella. From Europe.

… Charley Eiseman, 21 December, 2008 - 4:18pm

I stand (nicely and neatly) corrected.

None of the above have passed before my lens. Well, if they did, I missed the shot! (I'd love to add a wool carder bee to my images.)

… Ron Hemberger, 21 December, 2008 - 4:34pm

Actually you are partly correct

Apis mellifera is the only introduced Apis. The other non-natives belong to different genera or even family. As Vespula said the honey bee is the only introduced one of that genus. There are a handful of species of Apis; I think that they are all in Asia; honey can be collected from them.
Happy hunting for a carder bee. I see that it is in California already.
I put nest boxes last spring for native bees and I only got this:

a non-native. Oh, well!

… Beatriz Moisset, 28 December, 2008 - 9:00pm

Bees are slow in SoCal now.

Outside of honey bees, Agapostemon is about all that's out there. HandsOff in northern California has found many carder bees.

… Ron Hemberger, 28 December, 2008 - 10:24pm

There are no native honey bees

And you can't normally see the stinger just by looking at the bee because they keep it in their abdomen when not in use.

This looks like a female (which means she has a stinger).

She also has pollen baskets, they are just empty at the time. Definitely a honey bee in the genus Apis. Not sure if its Apis mellifera though I'm not an expert

… Vespula Vulgaris, 21 December, 2008 - 3:59pm

Apis

Only one species Apis mellifera listed for genus Apis at Nomina-Nearctica.

… Ted Kropiewnicki, 21 December, 2008 - 11:03pm

what?

Oh I guess... There is more than just apis melifera on bugguide but I guess the rest are subspecies of melifera and not completely different species

… Vespula Vulgaris, 22 December, 2008 - 6:07pm

Yes

Yes on your subspecies comment. I was also pointing out that while there are several Apis species, they are all outside the Nearctic region except for Apis melifera. And I believe that Ron has already made this point also. Of course, who knows what else is being introduced as we speak. :)

… Ted Kropiewnicki, 22 December, 2008 - 6:46pm