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 bee a dark, coppery color in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera, Indonesia. It's habitat is limited to the tropical evergreen forests of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra, and they do not live in tropical evergreen rain forests which extend into Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Apis nigrocincta is a cavity-nesting species. The species has rust-colored scapes, legs, and cylpeuses, with reddish-tan hair color that covers most of the body. "Apis cerana", the eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia. It was domesticated as subspecies "A. c. indica" and kept in hives in a