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From Middle English hony bee.

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honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

• (species in Apis): See entry for Apis

• black dwarf honey bee (Apis andreniformis)
• Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
• Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica)
• Caucasian honey bee (Apis mellifera caucasia)
• dwarf honeybee (Apis florea)
• East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
• eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)
• European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
• giant honey bee (Apis dorsata)
• Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica)
• Himalayan giant honey bee (Apis laboriosa)
• Himalayan honey bee (Apis dorsata laboriosa)
• Indonesian honey bee (Apis dorsata binghami)
• Koschevnikov's honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi)
• Maltese honey bee (Apis mellifera ruttneri)
• Philippine honey bee (Apis nigrocincta)
• red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea)
• western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
  • For more see   List of Apis mellifera subspecies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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