Low protein bee food

[Michael Bush]

>apidae is the bee species, wild bees, honey bees.
>apidea I don?t know, api..bee---dea...god.  I don?t know why the mini mating nucs are called apidea. Bet Michael Bush knows.

The taxonomy of the honey bee Apis mellifera:
Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Euarthropoda
Class:   Insecta
Order:   Hymenoptera
Family:   Apidae
Genus:   Apis
Species:   A. mellifera

Hymenoptera is the order, which includes wasps, bees, hornets etc.   Apidae is the Family, which includes all the solitary bees and the bumble bees etc.  Apis is the Genus but that only includes honey bees like cerana, dorsata, florea etc.   Mellifera is the species.  There was a push to change the species to mellifica.  Mellifera is Latin for "honey maker".  Mellifica is Latin for "Honey gatherer".  The theory was that maybe "Honey Gatherer" is more accurate since bees don't produce honey from scratch, they mostly gather it.  They do process it some.  A lot of the older books have it listed as "Apis mellifica".

[seanconnery]

DEA is Goddess.

[beesnweeds]

Isn't Apidea a name brand of mini nucs as well?

http://www.apidea.ch/media/archive1/Betriebsanleitung%20englisch_2013.pdf

[Ben Framed]

Isn't Apidea a name brand of mini nucs as well?

http://www.apidea.ch/media/archive1/Betriebsanleitung%20englisch_2013.pdf

I don't know, bit it is also a place in Greece.

[SiWolKe]

>apidae is the bee species, wild bees, honey bees.
>apidea I don?t know, api..bee---dea...god.  I don?t know why the mini mating nucs are called apidea. Bet Michael Bush knows.

The taxonomy of the honey bee Apis mellifera:
Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Euarthropoda
Class:   Insecta
Order:   Hymenoptera
Family:   Apidae
Genus:   Apis
Species:   A. mellifera

Hymenoptera is the order, which includes wasps, bees, hornets etc.   Apidae is the Family, which includes all the solitary bees and the bumble bees etc.  Apis is the Genus but that only includes honey bees like cerana, dorsata, florea etc.   Mellifera is the species.  There was a push to change the species to mellifica.  Mellifera is Latin for "honey maker".  Mellifica is Latin for "Honey gatherer".  The theory was that maybe "Honey Gatherer" is more accurate since bees don't produce honey from scratch, they mostly gather it.  They do process it some.  A lot of the older books have it listed as "Apis mellifica".

Many thanks, Michael.
I used the wrong term.

[Michael Bush]

>I used the wrong term.

It's the right term for the Family.