I was amazed at it, wonder how rare it is? I fed it some sugar water to get the photo.

It may be the European or Western honey bee.
This breed is believed to have been brought over by colonists

More information
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/crea...

Mindy03 said:It may be the European or Western honey bee.
This breed is believed to have been brought over by colonists

More information
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/crea...

Yes it's a European, but finding them in black is rare I've heard. I found out sometimes bees can have white eyes but those don't fly well.

We haven't seen many here but my brother sees a lot of them in his neighborhood.

The black honey bee, according to the man who helped me get started in bee keeping, says it is a German honeybee. He sees them regularly at his home and has been trying to find the wild hive for several years.

It would be hard to follow a black bee back to its hive. It would blend in very well with the plants.

To track a black bee dust with flour.