[ **up: [[Hymenoptera (Order)]]** ] --- # Honeybee | *Apis* (Genus) --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Arthropods|Arthropoda (Phylum)]] - [[Insects|Insecta (Class)]] - [[Hymenoptera (Order)]] - *[[Honeybee|Apis (Genus)]]* <small>BEES</small> --- ## Description ### Pheromones Many pheromones, like the [[Honeybee|honeybee]] alarm pheromone, “have both immediate ‘releaser’ effects and longer lasting primer effects.’[^1] > In the honey bee this is reflected in changes in gene activity in the bee’s antennal lobe. For many hours after exposure to alarm pheromone, honeybees are more likely to attack intruders.[^2] [^1]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740. [^2]: Tristram D. Wyatt, ‘[[Wyatt. ‘Pheromones’, 2017.|Pheromones]]’, *Current Biology*, vol. 27, issue 15 (7 August 2017), p. R740.