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APIS lifescience - Honey bee (186 words) |
 | The domestic European honey bee (Apis mellifera, family Apidae) is one of 20.000 species belonging to the superfamily of the bees (Apoidea). |
 | She was probably first distributed in Anterior Asia where she became commercially exploited by humans and in the course of the time was spread over the whole earth. |
 | The genus Apis mellifera forms persistent states, which consist of a queen, about 30,000 to 70,000 worker bees and up to 1,000 drones. |