Which plant's name is derived from the greek for "bee," Melittis or Hovea?
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Melittis Melittis melissophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. Its common name is bastard balm. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Melittis. The genus name is derived from the Greek "melitta", which is in turn from "melissa" ("a bee").
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Hovea Hovea (Purple pea) is a genus of perennial shrubs which are native to Australia. Species from this genus are occasionally cultivated as ornamental plants. The genus name honours Anton Pantaleon Hove, a Polish plant collector.
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Apicystis bombi Apicystis bombi is a species of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. It infects bees, especially bumblebees. It is believed to have a cosmopolitan distribution in bumblebees and a sporadic occurrence in honey bees, and causes disease symptoms in nonresistant bee species.
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Victoria (plant) Victoria is a genus of water-lilies, in the plant family Nymphaeaceae, with very large green leaves that lie flat on the water's surface. "Victoria amazonica" has a leaf that is up to 3 m in diameter, on a stalk up to 8 m in length. The genus name was given in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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Melastoma affine Melastoma affine, also known by the common names blue tongue or native lassiandra, is a shrub of the Melastomataceae family. Distributed in tropical and sub-tropical forests of India, South-east Asia and Australia, it is a plant of rainforest margins. Bees are the principal pollinators of this species.
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Hakea leucoptera Hakea leucoptera is a plant of the dry regions of Australia. The species is often referred to as silver needlewood, needle hakea, pin bush, and water tree. It has several indigenous names; Booldoobah, Uri, Kuluva, and Kuloa. The specific epithet, derived from the Latin "Leucoptera" (Gk): "leuco" means "white"; and "ptera" means "winged", referring to the characteristic white-winged seeds of this species.
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Melicytus Melicytus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae. "Hymenanthera" is a synonym.
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Colletes halophilus Colletes halophilus, the sea aster mining bee, is a rare species of mining bee from the family Colletidae which is found around the margins of saltmarsh and other coastal habitats in south-eastern England and north-western Europe. It is threatened by rising sea levels and human development which reduce its food plant sea aster ("Aster tripolium") and destroy its nesting areas.
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Mallota bautias Mallota bautias is a species of hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae). It is known for being particularly bee-like. It is found in eastern North America.
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Thalia (nymph) In Greek mythology, Thalia (Greek: Θάλεια "Tháleia" or Θάλια "Thália", "the Joyous, the Flourishing", from θάλλειν / thállein, "to flourish, to be green") is a nymph, the child of Hephaestus. She is also given as an anthropomorphic secondary deity of plant life and shoots, possibly as the culmination of the transmission of knowledge on volcanic ash's use as a fertiliser, characteristic of ancient viticulture in volcanic soils such as those of the island of Santorini.
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Melanostoma Melanostoma is a large genus of hoverflies. Little is known of their biology, but they are suspected to be general predators of small insects in leaf litter.
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Azpeytia Azpeytia is a genus of hoverfly. Larvae of one species "Azpeytia shirakii" is known to live in the corms and stems of an orchid "Gastrodia elata".
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Apis mellifera cypria Apis mellifera cypria is a mediterranean bee sub-species of the European honey bee species. Known commonly as the Cyprus honey bee, otherwise as "A. m. cypria" Pollmann 1879
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Ampittia Ampittia is the genus of bush hoppers in the skipper butterfly family, Hesperiidae. It is the only member of the tribe Ampittiini, but many skipper butterflies are yet to be assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
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Megachilidae Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a "scopa") is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families). Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials from which they build their nest cells (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees, while others use plant resins in nest construction and are correspondingly called resin bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are cleptoparasites (informally called "cuckoo bees"), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess scopae. Megachilid bees are among the world's most efficient pollinators. The motion of Megachilidae in the reproductive structures of flowers is highly energetic and swimming-like. This vigorous agitation releases large amounts of pollen. While they are efficient as pollinators, they are inefficient as foragers; megachilids require an average of ten times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell as other types of bees.
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Syrphipogon Syrphipogon is a genus of hoverflies. There are two known species. They are very large microdontine flies of about 25 mm. They have a deeply sulcate scutellum and a facial mystax. They are mimics of the large bees of the genus "Eulaema".
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Hovea chorizemifolia Hovea chorizemifolia, commonly known as the holly-leaved hovea, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to the south-west of Western Australia.
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Colletes marginatus Colletes marginatus is a species of solitary bee of the family Colletidae. The female only gather pollen from flowers of the family Fabaceae, including species like "Trifolium arvense", "Melilotus albus" and "Melilotus officinalis".
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Melitta (bee) Melitta is a genus of bees in the family Melittidae. It includes about 40 species restricted to Africa and the northern temperate zone. Most of the species are Palaearctic, though three rare species occur in North America.
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Apis cerana japonica Apis cerana japonica is a subspecies of the Eastern honey bee native to Japan. It is commonly known as the Japanese honey bee (ニホンミツバチ , Nihon mitsubachi ) . This subspecies was determined, through an analysis of mitochondrial DNA, to have originally come from the Korean peninsula. They have been observed moving into urban areas in the absence of natural predators.
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Colletes succinctus Colletes succinctus, the common colletes or heather colletes, is a species of Palearctic mining bee from the family Colletidae. It is part of the "succintus" species group within the genus "Colletes" and is especially closely related to the ivy bee ("Colletes hederae") and the sea aster mining bee ("Colletes halophilus") with are partially sympatric with "C. succintus" but ecologically separate.
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Nymphaea Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, and some are weeds. Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαια, "nymphaia" and the Latin "nymphaea", which mean "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology.