Western honey bee "Apis mellifera" is thought to have originated in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Western honey bee The western honey bee or European honey bee ("Apis mellifera") is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name "Apis" is Latin for "bee", and "mellifera" is the Latin for "honey-bearing", referring to the species' production of honey. Like all honey bees, the western honey bee is eusocial, creating colonies with a single fertile female (or "queen"), many normally non-reproductive females or "workers," and small proportion of fertile males or "drones." Individual colonies can house tens of thousands of
Honey Loops Honey Loops Honey Loops is a breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's and sold in Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, the UK, India, Spain, Malta, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The mascot of Honey Loops is a male honeybee called Loopy, who has now been replaced by a female bee called Pops (primarily as the mascot of Honey Pops). The cereal was originally marketed as Honey Nut Loops, however the "Nut" has since been dropped from the name and the list of ingredients in 1998. The commercials for the original product explicitly mentioned the "crunchy nuts" it used to contain. In