ABSTRACT
The giant honeybee (Apis dorsata Fabricius, 1793) is a keystone pollinator in diversified Asian forests, ranging from lowlands to mountainous areas. Beyond being a keystone insect pollinator, A. dorsata is accountable for the forest successional development in agitation areas and providing an importance source harmoniously for human communities. This chapter therefore provides information on this honeybee species from the fundamental knowledge. The taxonomic status, a common morphology, ecological distribution, and population genetic diversity are defined and explained. The biography as it relates to survival capability, distribution behaviors, mating behavior, colony migration, and nesting biology are briefly outlined, as is the comprehensive range of adaptation throughout this change of the anthropogenic cultivation and climatic effects. A. dorsata has important economic, ecological, and social values throughout its range in Asia. Therefore, adaptation success in agricultural and urban area has been discussed. The species is accommodatable; changes in temperatures across the deforestation and climatic change activities have been notified. The behavioral adjustability such as foraging behavior toward circadian daily profiles has been particularly enumerated accordingly. The accoutrements for living under the stressfulness of urbanization and anthropogenic activities boughten the distressed recently has been considerably described. The example of land use changing in a buffer area city of western Thailand has been demonstrated. The encouragement of the species success by promoting eco-friendly bee activities and landscapes toward the policy of sustainably strengthening human and natural resource security is mentioned.
