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Honey bee and Moth

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pollinators

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19 Comments

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

yes i will pal

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Haha... for that take care..!!

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

Absolutely ashish thats great info
And juan I am gonna go back and try to spot the nest if possible
must be around somewhere cause i see a lot of these in the vicinity.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Hope Atul you got good info here...like I get...!!

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

a) worker, b) queen, c) drone

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

on it B is queen bee..?

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

Ashish, that´s a good page, but is a general color pattern on the species, unfortunately there are also exceptions and intermediated color patterns

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

not at all Juan ,you give me a good start to find out more and more about my spotting .i am learning a lot from you and project noah,
i am a bird watcher but friends like you and others on project noah have motivated me a lot to look into other species other than birds ,thanks to you all.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Atul see Anatomy image of Honey bee and know Abdomen..
http://www.geochembio.com/biology/organi...

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

and yes, Apis species have different nest shapes and behavior, so is probably easier to identify the species by watching the nest

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

I know you feel frustrated because must of the time I don´t give you an species identification, but unfortunately insects are not like mammals. They are small and many times are very similar, so a true identification is only possible using an stereoscope and a taxonomical key

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

absolutely ???? nest ?? or what ashish said

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

absolutely

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

I find that in Apis genus specie of andreniformis had shorter abdomen compared to specie of cerana.

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

the nest would be suggestive ,is it Juan????

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

yes, it could be A. andreniformis, but again, is hard to be sure only by a picture.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Moth is very cute...!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

This is also... Apis andreniformis

Atul
Spotted by
Atul

Union Territory of Dādra and Nagar Haveli, India

Spotted on Aug 3, 2011
Submitted on Oct 14, 2011

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