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Apidae

noun
1.
Honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees.  Synonym: family Apidae.





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"Apidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... complicating itself more and more in one direction and along a straight line, the species which are thus arranged by their instincts into a linear series are by no means always akin. Thus, the comparative study, in recent years, of the social instinct in the different apidae proves that the instinct of the meliponines is intermediary in complexity between the still rudimentary tendency of the humble bees and the consummate science of the true bees; yet there can be no kinship between the bees and the meliponines.[69] Most likely, the ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson


Words linked to "Apidae" :   genus Psithyrus, superfamily Apoidea, Apis, genus Apis, Apoidea, genus Xylocopa, Xylocopa, Psithyrus, genus Bombus, arthropod family, family Apidae, Bombus


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