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5 days ago · A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
3 days ago · Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are currently considered a clade, called Anthophila. [1]
5 days ago · A honeybee (Apis) drinking nectar from a flower. Roles of bees and flowers in European woodlands.
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2 days ago · 5. Honeybees Live Longer. Due partially to their cooperation, honeybees live longer than bumblebees. They gather together in the winter for warmth, keeping themselves and their queens alive longer. A honeybee queen may live over 3 years. Bumblebees, on the other hand, die within months.
4 days ago · Honey bees are not (and cannot be) domesticated so you need to know a lot about how a colony how to start a beehive, manage it and be successful as a beekeeper. By gaining an understanding of how bees behave, you can learn to control them and they’ll produce all the honey that you want and more.
1 day ago · Stingless bee. Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), [1] [2] comprising the tribe Meliponini [3] [4] (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). [5] They belong in the family Apidae ( subfamily Apinae ), and are closely ...
1 day ago · Researchers at the Washington Policy Center have found honeybees are dying off at a higher rate in recent years. They warn there is a lot of misinformation around those statistics, and they usually falsely accuse pesticides. “I think there’s a couple of things. One is, I think it’s ignorance. I think people don’t know about honeybees ...
