Bees are best known for their ecological roles as pollinators and, in the case of the best-known species, the western honey bee, for producing honey, a regurgitated and dehydrated viscous mixture of …

4 days ago · A bee (superfamily Apoidea) is any of more than 20,000 species of insects in the suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), which includes the familiar honeybee (Apis) and bumblebee (Bombus …

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Aug 7, 2024 · Honeybees and bumblebees are the iconic representatives of this busy and buzzy insect, but there are actually more than 20,000 different species of bee.

Like all insects, a bee’s body is divided into three parts: a head with two antennae, a thorax with six legs, and an abdomen. All bees have branched hairs somewhere on their bodies and two pairs of wings.

Bees can be broadly classified into two types – the social bees, which form colonies consisting of a fertile queen, workers, and drones, and the solitary and communal bees, where every female bee is …

The life cycle of a social bee starts with a queen bee, who constructs a new nest in the early spring and cares for the first generation of workers until they reach adulthood. After the workers emerge, the …

It’s a bee-utiful world with bees: Bees can be both remarkable and fascinating to watch, from a distance! Give them their space, and they will go about their work assisting in flowering plant reproduction and …

Oct 17, 2023 · A guide to identifying different types of common bee species found around the world, complete with photos.