Asian honey bee (Apis cerana)

Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) is an animal species in Apidae, honey bees that build nests consisting of many combs in cavities that have small entrances, eat pollen and nectar, are very social, live in forests and plantations in an ecosystem together with other bee species.

A. cerana has long, erect hair and covers compound eyes, helps pollen collection, the scutellum is very convex and the lobes are also on the hind wings. Adults are black, with four or five yellow stripes on the abdomen.



Workers use their hind legs to transport pollen and stingers instead of organs for laying eggs. The queen is a reproductive female, usually larger in size because of the enlarged reproductive organs. The drone is male, has bigger eyes, does not have a stinger and is a blunt stomach.

A nest is a simple vertical comb made of wax secreted by workers, whereas thermoregulation is produced by fanning and evaporation of water collected in the field. This large-scale storage tactic requires the construction of a stable and sturdy comb structure for storage of the honey.

The production of wax for combs is an expensive and energetic endeavor, colonies generally do not build entire structures early on. Colonies construct sequences of smaller combs that meet initial storage needs. After moving to a new hive, the colony will continue to enlarge the comb until there are sufficient storage units to meet all the honey needs.

TAXON

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Infraorder: Aculeata
Superfamily: Apoidea
Epifamily: Anthophila
Family: Apidae
Subfamily: Apinae
Tribe: Apini
Genus: Apis Linnaeus (1758)
Subgenus: Apis
Species: Apis cerana Fabricius (1793)

VERNACULAR NAME

Arabic: نحل العسل الشرقي
Catalan: Abella de la Mel Asiàtica
Chinese (simplified): 东方蜜蜂
Chinese (traditional): 東方蜜蜂
Czech: Včela východní
Dutch: Aziatische honingbij
English: Asian honey bee, Eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee, Asian honey bee
Finnish: Intianmehiläinen
French: Abeille asiatique
German: Östliche Honigbiene
Guangdong: 東方蜜蜂
Hong Kong: 東方蜜蜂
Indonesian: Lebah madu timur, Lebah madu Asia, Lebah madu Asiatik, Lebah madu timur
Italian: Ape asiatica, Ape orientale
Japanese: トウヨウミツバチ
Java: Tawon madu
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: ګبينه مچۍ
Korean: 재래꿀벌
Lithuanian: Rytinė medunešė bitė
Macao: 東方蜜蜂
Malaysia: Lebah Lalat
Pashto: ګبينه مچۍ
Polish: Pszczoła wschodnia
Russian: Китайская восковая пчела
Sinhala: ආසියාතික මී මැස්සා
Spanish: Abeja melífera asiatica
Swedish: Östasiatiskt honungsbi
Tagalog: Laywan
Taiwan: 東方蜜蜂
Thai: ผึ้งโพรง
Turkish: Asya Bal Arısı

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