a Peter Loring Borst snip followed by > my comment..
I don't use honeybee, either, though Seeley does. 

In Google Scholar, "honeybee" gets 140,000 hits while "honey bee" gets 289,000. 

For best results use: "honeybee" OR "honey bee" -- that brings up 325,000 citations. I have read them all, too.

> I once had a conversation about this difference with Dr Thomas (he has his name on the bee lab and apiary inspection building at Texas A&M) and he told me he was there when this convention was decided upon for publication here in the US.  Might get this backward but I seem to recall honey bee was considered proper in England but honeybee was the proper term in the US. I would guess us non academic types can use either and no one would be much confused?

Gene in central Texas...

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