European honey bee on Pyrethrum flower,Lviv Oblast,Ukraine - Stockfoto

The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 712 species of honey bees worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for bee, and mellifera is the Latin for honey-bearing or honey carrying, referring to the species' production of honey. Pyrethrum was a genus of several Old World plants now classified as Chrysanthemum or Tanacetum which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum continues to be used as a common name for plants formerly included in the genus Pyrethrum. Pyrethrum is also the name of a natural insecticide made from the dried flower heads of Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium and Chrysanthemum coccineum. The insecticidal compounds present in these species are pyrethrins.