#3661 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Asian Honey Bee

🇳🇱 Aziatische honingbij ·Apis cerana

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © lava_chen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Joy Wang 王穆清 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Circle Fong · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © sreenivasan · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Sunnetchan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Gonam · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © R.J. Adams · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © avocat · CC BY 4.0
9. © pratyeka · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Diego Garcia Arthropods · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Apis cerana , or the eastern honey bee (and the Asiatic honey bee ), is a species of honey bee found in southern and southeastern Asia, including China, Pakistan, India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Australia. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi , and both are in the same subgenus as the western (European) honey bee, Apis mellifera . A. cerana is known to live sympatrically along with Apis koschevnikovi within...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,913iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
26,913 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793 (233 years ago).