Fossil shows first all-American honeybee

North America once had its own Apis species instead of today’s imports

July 23, 2009 at 6:56 pm - More than 2 years ago

North America did too have a native honeybee.

A roughly 14-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Nevada preserves what’s clearly a member of the honeybee, or Apis, genus, says Michael Engel of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.