Apis (Apis) mellifera Linnaeus 1758
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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).
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Identifiers
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