Honey Bee
Honey bees get their common name from the sweet yellowish to brownish fluid they make from the nectar of flowers. Honey bees are also responsible for a large share of insect stings.
- Common Name: Honey Bee
- Scentific Name: Apis Mellifera Linnaeus
- Class/Order/Family: Insecta/Hymenoptera/Apidae
- Metamorphosis: Complete
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Size
Adult worker's body length about 1/2-5/8".
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Color
Usually orangish brown to sometimes black with body mostly covered with branched, pale hairs, most dense on thorax.
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Biology
Social insects who live as colonies in hives. The entire population overwinters.
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Habit
Honey bees are not aggressive. They will attack only whatever seems to threaten the colony.
Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington Counties