A European Honey Bee and It's Flowers
by Carol Montoya
Title
A European Honey Bee and It's Flowers
Artist
Carol Montoya
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Photograph - Photography
Description
The Honey Bee is a best friend to nature.
The Western and European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bee worldwide. The European honey bee one of the first domesticated insects. The honey bee is distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of colonies nests from wax. There are only seven species of honey bee are recognized even though there have been six to eleven species are recognized in the past. The best-known honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Honey bees represent only a very small fraction bees in the world.
The honey bees obtain all of their nutrition from a combination of pollen and nectar.
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July 30th, 2013
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Carol Montoya
Thank you, Gayle Price Thomas for a feature in the group "Amazing Butterflies and Pretty Small Insects!"
Carol R Montoya
Thank you, Dianna Lewis for the feature in the group Insects Butterflys And Reptile !
Carol R Montoya
Thank you, Barbara Molocznik for the feature in your group "Art For Close Up And Macro Hummingbirds Butterflies Bees Dragonflies Crickets Grasshoppers Frogs Flies Chameleons Home"!