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Apis mellifera

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Apis mellifera
Honeybee Immunology A major cause of life-threatening anaphylaxis in sensitized individuals Clinical Fever, chills, light-headedness, hives, joint and muscle pain, bronchial constriction, SOB, hypotension, pulmonary edema, shock, and possibly, death. See Hymenopteran.


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Even the Apis mellifera honeybee that has pollinated crops and made honey across the Americas for several centuries arrived with European colonists some 400 years ago.
Since the early 20th century, humans have disrupted the natural geographical distribution of western honeybees across the world by breeding and importing two races: the gentle and productive Italian honeybee, Apis mellifera ligustica, also called the yellow bee because of its colour; and, from the Balkans, the Apis mellifera carnica, another prolific honey-maker.
Willie's brown bees, apis mellifera, which are indigenous to northern Europe, produced record quantities of honey and beeswax last summer and in 2005, and are currently awaiting the arrival of spring.
 
 
 
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