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Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus 1758

Description

Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus 1758

County records: Alcona, Alger, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Baraga, Barry, Bay, Benzie, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Delta, Dickinson, Eaton, Emmet, Genesee, Gladwin, Gogebic, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Houghton, Huron, Ingham, Ionia, Iosco, Iron, Isabella, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Keweenaw, Lake, Lapeer, Leelanau, Lenawee, Livingston, Luce, Mackinac, Macomb, Manistee, Marquette, Mason, Mecosta, Menominee, Midland, Missaukee, Monroe, Montcalm, Montmorency, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Oceana, Ogemaw, Ontonagon, Osceola, Oscoda, Otsego, Ottawa, Presque Isle, Roscommon, Saginaw, Sanilac, Schoolcraft, Shiawassee, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Tuscola, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne, Wexford.

Notes. This non-native managed species undoubtedly occurs in all counties. It is often the primary pollinator of commercial fruit and vegetable crops, but it may also have negative ecological impacts on native bees (Cane & Tepedino 2016; Lindström et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Apis
Species
mellifera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Gibbs, Ascher, Rightmyer & Isaacs, 2017

References

  • Cane, J. H. & Tepedino, V. J. (2016) Gauging the effect of honey bee pollen collection on native bee communities. Conservation Letters, 10, 205 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / conl. 12263
  • Lindstrom, S. A. M., Herbertsson, L., Rundlof, M., Bommarco, R. & Smith, H. G. (2016) Experimental evidence that honeybees depress wild insect densities in a flowering crop. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 283, 20161641. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rspb. 2016.1641