honey bees
Striped nectar collectors
Honey bees are social insects that live in colonies and produce honey from flower nectar.
A single colony may contain tens of thousands of workers, a queen, and male drones.
Honey bees are essential pollinators for agriculture and ecosystems.
The two-word spelling distinguishes them from other bees; *honeybee* as one word is also common.
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- colony collapseSudden worker bee abandonment
- nectarFloral sugar water
- pollinationFlower reproductive transfer
- pollen basketBee's cargo holder
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- Hymenopterawasps, ants, hornets, sawflies, bumblebees
- pollinationpollinator, hummingbirds, pollen, wasps, pollen tube
- summersummer, summertime, midsummer, summer solstice, solstice
- pest controlinsecticide, rat trap, pesticide, mousetrap, exterminator
- sweetenerssugar, maple syrup, brown sugar, white sugar, sucrose
honey beeslocusts
Swarming crop-destroying grasshoppers
parasitic wasps · crop pests · agricultural pests · aphids · Japanese beetles
honey beesyellowjackets
Predatory striped wasps
hornets · wasps · killer bees · murder hornets · bald-faced hornets