The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_honey_bee" class="extiw" title="en:European honey bee">European honey bee</a></b> or <b>western honey bee</b> (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) is a species of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/honey_bee" class="extiw" title="en:honey bee">honey bee</a>. The specimen in this picture are of the subspecies <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dark_bee" class="extiw" title="en:European dark bee">Apis mellifera mellifera</a> at the  entrance to their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive#Natural_bees.27_nests" class="extiw" title="en:Beehive">nest</a> inside of a hollow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_Spruce" class="extiw" title="en:Norway Spruce">Picea abies</a> tree.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wilder_Kaiser" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Wilder Kaiser">Bernie</a>
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