January
08
/ 2021
In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who discovered and taught the use of honey and from whom bees were believed to have received their name. Regarded as nectar of the gods, honey is obviously as old as the bee and the oldest bee ever discovered was found embedded in amber in a mine in northern Myanmar (Burma) dating back 100-million-years. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"81671","attributes":{"alt":"Two New Halictine Bees entombed in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera, Halticidae). ZooKeys 29: 1–12. (CC BY-SA 3.0).","class":"media-image","height":"398","style":"width: 610px; height: 398px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Two New Halictine Bees entombed in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera, Halticidae). ZooKeys 29: 1–12. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) . Ancient African Bees More than 16,000 species of bees currently exist in seven
