Honey Bee

Scientific Name: 
Apis mellifera
Location

Garden Location: 
Garden Wide

The Honey Bee is the primary pollinator of flowers in the garden.  This bee is an Old World insect which is well adapted to a Mediterranean climate and essential to the economic production of the worlds' honey.  This is a social insect forming a hive with a queen, workers and drone bees.  Photos by Laurel Woodley

Apis mellifera feeding on redbud
Apis mellifera hive in the Koi Garden
Apis mellifera hive with thousands of individual bees
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