Apis florea

Dwarf honeybee ( Apis florea )

The dwarf honeybee ( Apis florea ) is one of the eight occurring in Asia species from the genus of honey bees ( Apis ). Their range extends from Oman to the Indonesian islands. In the eighties of the twentieth century dwarf honey bees were introduced into the Sudan in the early nineties, they have also been detected in Iraq.

Dwarf honey bees have only short spines that human skin can not penetrate. Insert a palm- large honeycomb outdoors on a branch where the upper end of a horizontal platform is that is used for the typical bee waggle dance. The peoples can contain up to 20,000 individuals. The drones of the world's second smallest Honigbienenart ( even smaller, only the dwarf bush bee) fly mainly at lunchtime.

Particularity

When a people of the dwarf honey bee is queenless, ie loses its queen, workers use foreign colonies the opportunity and join them to produce drones with their genetic material in this nation. This is facilitated by the construction of the honeycomb outdoors. Such parasitizing queenless loose peoples does not occur in the Western honey bee.