Talk:Cape honey bee

Effect on European Honey Bees and "Africanized" bees
Is there information on their effect on European Honey Bees? Or "Africanized" Bees?

And how do they compare to African and European ones in honey production, aggressiveness, and deadliness?

70.29.212.226 (talk) 05:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It's not clear what you mean by "effect". I assume you want to know how A. m. capensis affects other honey bees. The problem is not just in the proper wording but also in the way the question is asked which is vague. Also, European honey bee is simply the specie that divides in 20+ subspecies, one of them being the capensis. The Africanized bee is a hybrid. There is no such thing as "Africanized" bees if this is meant as multiple hybrid species. Your second question is asking about "African" bees which is rather vague because there are a few species of honey bees in the south side of the African continent. I assume you meant to say "Africanized" bee but there is too much vagueness here so I won't guess. I suggest to do some reading.


 * ICE77 (talk) 07:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Title
Can the title of this page be changed to a common name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.171.84.202 (talk) 12:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * done vlad§inger  tlk  21:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Unnecessarily complex vocabulary
This article reads like it was copy-pasted right out of a Journal. Is all this technical vocab really necessary? 72.38.238.42 (talk) 21:41, 10 July 2013 (UTC)


 * If you think it's too technical you are welcome to rephrase it in a simpler way. I don't think it's unnecessary. Even though I know about honey bees, I find it somewhat technical jargon but I don't think it should be left out, especially considering the complexities of Apis mellifera species.


 * ICE77 (talk) 07:06, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

New research regarding heterozygosity
I wanted to point out that there is a new study about heterozygosity levels in cape honey bee "Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeb.13397 Kumi (talk) 12:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Maybe you can ad this because i don't find it anywhere on your artical
Normally, a bee population has a queen and workers, which arise from the queen's unfertilized eggs. Only when a larva is spoiled by the workers with the royal jelly does a new queen emerge. Not with the Cape honey bee: there the workers produce eggs which, depending on the food, develop into a worker or queen. But in a host colony, the larvae like a young cuckoo cockle the workers in front of their cart and get extra food, entomologists from Wageningen write in Nature. Many thereby grow into pseudo-queens and sow discord within the ranks of the host colony. Refke94 (talk) 23:56, 28 May 2020 (UTC)