What are the main types of bees?

Bees belong to the phylum Arthropods, Insecta, Hymenoptera, Honeybee Family, Honeybee Family, and Honeybee genus in the animal kingdom. Their common features are: social life; There is no distance on the tibial joint of the hind foot; Ura builds a nest spleen with a hexagonal nest on both sides; The direction of the nest spleen is perpendicular to the ground.

Worldwide, there are now nine species of bees in the genus Honeybee, which are the western bee of the subgenus Honeybee, the small bee and the small black bee of the subgenus of the small bee, the large bee and the black giant bee of the subgenus of the great bee, the green nu bee of the crescent crescent bee subgenus, the Sabah bee, the Sulawesi bee, and the Oriental honey bee. Each species can be divided into several geographical subspecies, i.e., species in apiculture, due to the different natural environment of its distribution area.

Breeds within the same species can mate with each other, and different species are reproductively isolated from each other and cannot mate with each other. There are six species found in China in the genus Honeybee, including Big Bee, Big Black Bee, Small Bee, Little Black Bee, Oriental Honey Bee and Western Honey Bee. Among them, the western honey bee belongs to the introduced bee species, which is the most evolved species in the genus Honeybee, and is currently the main breeding bee species in the world.

<> the four most economically valuable bee species recognized in the world are the European black bee, the Italian bee, the Caniola bee and the Caucasian bee in the European types of Western honeybee species. These four species of bees play a very important role in the formation and development of modern beekeeping. Among them, the European black bee is native to the vast areas of Europe north of the Alps; Italian bees are native to the Apennine Peninsula in Italy; The Caniola bee is native to the southern Alps and the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Austria, and is found throughout the Doran River basin, including Austria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and northern Greece; Caucasian bees are native to the high valleys of the central Caucasus, mainly in the mountainous regions of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The western bee is the main bee species in China's contemporary beekeeping production, but it is not an original bee species in China, and the western bees raised in China are all imported from abroad. In 1913, China introduced Italian bees from Japan, which was the first Western bee species introduced in China. In the 20 30s of the 20th century, China introduced a large number of Italian bees from Japan, and now China's native Italian bees are their descendants.

In the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, China had introduced three Italian strains from Australia, the United States and Italy respectively, but due to imperfect conservation measures, all of them have been mixed. In the 80s of the 20th century, China introduced the above three Italian bee strains from Italy, the United States and Australia. In the early 50s of the 20th century, the Caniola bee introduced in China is another important western bee species introduced in China.