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
African Honey Bee (organization) African Honey Bee (organization) African Honey Bee is a social-franchise beekeeping micro-business incubator established in 2007. Its purpose is to alleviate poverty through sustainable beekeeping, by enabling rural families to benefit from the unpolluted prime honey producing vegetation around them. African Honey Bee was set up by Guy Stubbs, a Christian Social Entrepreneur , who has expertise in developmental beekeeping. Andrew Weeks and Kobus Visser contributed towards the success of the project. African Honey Bee supports viable micro beekeeping businesses in southern Africa, by developing a network of interlinked beekeeping incubator farms that provide access to training, mentorship, low cost