Western honey bee 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 bees. Colony activities are organized by complex communication between individuals, through both
Maya the Bee: The Honey Games Honey Games for a chance to save her hive. Maya the Bee: The Honey Games Maya the Bee: The Honey Games is a 2018 Australian–German computer animated comedy adventure film directed by Noel Cleary, Sergio Delfino & Alexs Stadermann. Loosely based on 1975 anime "Maya the Honey Bee" and the German children's book "The Adventures of Maya the Bee" by Waldemar Bonsels, the film is a sequel to the 2014 film "Maya the Bee" and stars Coco Jack Gillies reprising her role as Maya. When an overenthusiastic Maya accidentally embarrasses the Empress of Buzztropolis, she is forced to unite with