Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: European dark bee?, 1 by wallaby1
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Subject: CLOSED: European dark bee?
Forum: Insect and Spider Identification
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wallaby1 wrote: I'm a little confused about the honey bees I had visiting my Cistus ladanifer, one is dark, the other looks like the 'standard' Apis mellifera. There seems to be little on the net about the honey bees, as they seem to have interbred with wild bees and there are subspecies. I found this pic of the European dark bee Apis mellifera mellifera which looks like the darker one I had at the same time as the 'standard' one. I had thought they might be the drones but I don't really know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_mellifera_mellifera Should I just put this in Apis mellifera? |