Regarding "honey bee" vs "honeybee." 

The Cornell Library list 47 books with honeybee in the title, vs 95 with honey bee. So, honey bee is used twice as often. But beyond that, most of the books using honeybee are from Europe or Africa, whereas most of the books published in the USA use honey bee. So, if a book is to be published in the USA and read mostly by US readers, then the use of "honey bee" makes perfect sense. It is the preferred term in US markets, the term I use, and the one used by respected US authors, such as:

Honey bee biology and bee keeping / Dewey M. Caron with Lawrence John Connor.

Honey bee colony health : challenges and sustainable solutions / editors: Diana Sammataro, Jay Yoder

A field guide to honey bees and their maladies / prepared by Maryann Frazier, Dewey Caron, and Dennis vanEngelsdorp

-- On the other side, non USA usage:

Honeybee Nests : Composition, Structure, Function / by H.R. Hepburn, C.W.W. Pirk, O. Duangphakdee

Honeybees : foraging behavior, reproductive biology and diseases / Cameron Malloy, editor.

Honeybee neurobiology and behavior : a tribute to Randolf Menzel / C. Giovanni Galizia, Dorothea Eisenhardt, Martin Giurfa, editors. 

-- The odd man out is the venerable Tom Seeley:

Honeybee democracy / Thomas D. Seeley. Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.

Honeybee ecology : a study of adaptation in social life / Thomas D. Seeley. Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1985.

PLB

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