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This website was created to share with you the behavioural aspects of the honeybee.  It was compiled as accurately as possible and designed by actual entomology students.

Before you begin to look at the social behaviour of the honeybee it  would be useful to have some knowledge  about the classification of honeybees.  There are actually four species of honeybee throughout the world.  Apis mellifera, (the most common and widely distributed species) can be found from the tropics to the sub-arctic.  The other three species -  Apis florea, Apis dorsata, and Apis cerena - are a little more confined, living in South-eastern Asia.   Most of the material covered on this website deals with A. mellifera unless otherwise stated.

This website contains all kinds of useful and accurate information about our buzzing little friends so sit back and take a
look inside using the links below, just remember to BEEhave yourself.

Bee-home Again

Colony:  Division of Labour

Defensive Mechanisms

Dances with Bees

Foraging

Mating