Asiatic honey bee

Ok

Please edit spotting add details...try to add why you shoot this..!!

Ashish, may be this will help you,I shot this pic in Karkala (Dakshin Karnataka) near Udupi. No idea about the detail

Welcome..
Kartik...
I was learning with Juan... this spotting helped me lot...!!

Thanks Ashish

http://www.encyclopedie-universelle.com/...

Thats why...
Juan I feel its different that.. Apis andreniformis..
I think its Apis cerana

is why I prefer to identify pictures only to genus. Is really hard to be sure and differences can be very subtle. A. andreniformis tend to be darker, but that is not always true. We don´t know if the spoter actually collect an individual and made the identification or saw the nest.

I feel this is Apis cerana than Apis andreniformis.

well, is hard to be sure about some of the Apis species. In some cases they are more easily differentiated by the nest shape and behavior, or is necessary to use a stereoscope.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/X0083E/X0083E0.... The oriental honeybee Apis cerana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_cerana...

Can be this is Apis cerana..?
http://www.wncbees.org/Wallpapers.cfm

probably not, that seems to me like an Apis florea

Is this same...?
http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayi...

mmm, Hoverflies are frequently smaller, but some of them can have the same size

Juan tell me which fly is bigger in size compared to each other...?
Hover fly or Honey bee..

Ashish, your first link is not working, but I´m very sure this is a Honey bee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_cai...

well there should be a misson for that juan perhaps u should suggest it.

yes, unfortunately we don´t have a mission for pollinators of the world. I hope soon we will create one.

Great shot... for Pollinator...Mission..!!