Who makes honey
More than 20,000 bee species live on Earth. Only a few store honey: the Apis honey bees and the tropical stingless bees.
Western honey beeApis melliferaworker 12–15 mm
Eastern honey beeApis ceranaworker 10–13 mm
Giant honey beeApis dorsataworker 17–20 mm
Dwarf honey beeApis floreaworker 7–10 mm
Stingless beesMeliponiniworker 2–14 mm
Himalayan giant honey beeApis laboriosaworker 18–22 mm
Red honey bee of BorneoApis koschevnikoviworker 10–12 mm
Melipona beesMeliponaworker 8–12 mm
Tetragonula beesTetragonulaworker 3–4.5 mm
African stingless beesMeliponula, Hypotrigonaworker 2.5–9 mm
5–6 weekslifespan of a worker in summer
1973Nobel Prize for Karl von Frisch, who decoded the bee dance
> 500species of stingless bees in the tropics
20 MayWorld Bee Day, birthday of beekeeper Anton Janša