European Bees
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 Gallery: Zach's Bee Photos [(c) Zachary Huang], for Prints   Album: Bees @ Home   
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A typical 'Italian' bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) busy making honey.

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A black bee (perhaps Apis mellifera carnica) busy making honey.

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This is rather rare! One bee is feeding four others at the same time. Can you spot which is giving food? This picture was taken in South Africa, the bees were Apis mellifera scutellata (the so called killer bees).

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Bees on the entrance. This picture was taken in South Africa, the bees were Apis mellifera scutellata (the so called killer bees). They looked almost exactly like our gentler bees...*

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Bees busy inspecting and nursing larvae. One bee was marked red on her thorax and tip of abdomen to know her age in an experiment.*

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The queen rarely makes mistakes, but here she did it. An egg is shown here laid on top of a pollen cell.*

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