Editing Honey bee (section)

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''[[Apis florea]]'' and ''[[Apis andreniformis]]'' are small honey bees of southern and southeastern Asia. They make very small, exposed nests in trees and shrubs. Their stings are often incapable of penetrating human skin, so the [[Beehive (beekeeping)|hive]] and [[swarm]]s can be handled with minimal protection. They occur largely [[sympatric]]ally, though they are very distinct [[evolution]]arily and are probably the result of [[allopatric speciation]], their distribution later converging.

Given that ''A.&nbsp;florea'' is more widely distributed and ''A.&nbsp;andreniformis'' is considerably more aggressive, honey is, if at all, usually harvested from the former only. They are the most ancient extant lineage of honey bees, maybe diverging in the [[Bartonian]] (some 40&nbsp;million years ago or slightly later) from the other lineages, but do not seem to have diverged from each other a long time before the [[Neogene]].<ref name="Arias-2005"/> ''[[Apis florea]]'' have smaller wing spans than its sister species.<ref name="Wongsiri-1997">{{cite journal | last1 = Wongsiri | first1 = S. | display-authors = et al | year = 1997 | title = Comparative biology of Apis andreniformis and Apis florea in Thailand | journal = Bee World | volume = 78 | issue = 1| pages = 23–35 | doi = 10.1080/0005772X.1997.11099328 }}</ref> ''Apis florea'' are also completely yellow except the scutellum of workers, which is black.<ref name="Wongsiri-1997" />