Yup - sure is. In October 2012, the bees created blue and green honey from materials they found at a French M&M factory. See related links for details.
True. When there is a large amount of nectar being collected, bees will store the surplus and convert it into honey. When necar is not available the bees will collect water and use it to dilute the honey so they can eat it. Bees can't eat honey without diluting it.
Flowers provide nectar for bees to get and produce honey.
Yup. Honey is bee barf. Bees collect nectar from flowers and store it in "honey stomachs," separate from their true stomachs. When they return to the hive, they regurgitate the nectar and either contact other worker bees for more processing or dump it directly into the honeycomb. It may be disgusting to think about thousands of honey bees lining up and regurgitate together to make honey, but humans have harvested bee barf and eaten it for thousands of years. Incidentally, honey is the only insect-created food that humans can eat.
Kingdom: Metazoa (also called Animalia, multicellular animals)Phylum: Arthropoda (arthropods)Class: Insecta (true insects)Order: Hymenoptera (membrane winged, includes ants, bees, wasps, sawflies)Family: Apidae (bees, including honey bees and bumble bees)Genus: ApisSpecies: Apis mellifera (honey bee)
YES. Honey bees help people cause they make honey 4 us 2 eat and they also take pollen 2 help grow flowers, so no one should be afraid of them. Except for the faq that they sting the **** out of you if you get them pissed =) remember that
Honey bees produce and store honey, and build nests out of wax. They account for only seven out of the some 20,000 known species of bees. Other bees may make and store honey, but only honey bees, of the genus Apis, are classified scientifically as true honey bees. Those who engage in scientific classification start with asking whether what they're studying belongs in one of two kingdoms: animal; or plant. The honey bee belongs in the former. And so the scientific classification of the honey bee looks as follows: Kingdom: Animalia. Phylum: Arthropoda. Class: Insecta. Subclass: Pterygota. Infraclass: Neoptera. Superorder: Endopterygota. Order: Hymenoptera. Suborder: Apocrita. Family: Apidae. Subfamily: Apinae. Tribe: Apini. Genus: Apis.
Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees which represent a far smaller fraction of bee diversity than most people suspect; of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees, there are only seven presently-recognized species with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999; historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized). These bees are the only living members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis, and all of which produce and store liquefied sugar ("honey") to some degree, and construct colonial nests out of wax secreted by the workers in the colony. Other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are considered true honey bees. Source: Answers.com
Honey bees are 'social' insects because they live in 'societies' or colonies of many thousands of individuals, where each member of the colony performs different tasks for the greater good of the colony as a whole. Honey bees would be unable to survive without the rest of the colony. This is not true of all bees, some bumble bees live a less social life, living alone, or in very small groups.
Honey is bee barf. It's one of the oldest sweeteners used by man. Ancient Egyptians valued it highly for its medicinal and healing properties. Honey is made when honeybees collect the nectar from plants. The bees then modify the nectar and store it in a honeycomb. Bees collect nectar from flowers and store it in "honey stomachs," separate from their true stomachs. When they return to the hive, they regurgitate the nectar and either contact other worker bees for more processing or dump it directly into the honeycomb. The bees then beat their tiny mighty wings to fan air through the hive to evaporate excess water from the honey. Finally, they cover honeycomb cells with wax to save the honey for whenever they get hungry. It may be disgusting to think about thousands of honey bees lining up and regurgitate together to make honey, but humans have harvested bee barf and eaten it for thousands of years. Incidentally, honey is the only insect-created food that humans can eat.
There are several bees all very social of the genus Apis, that produce honey. Especially A.mellifera, which is domesticated throughout the world as a source of honey and beeswax. They can be fairly aggressive especially when protecting their queen. The numbers of honey bees are on the decline for some mysterious reason. Can anyone help with info. on that?
You could collect nectar and evaporate most of the water from it and you would have something not unlike honey, but you would be missing one important stage. When bees initially swallow the nectar it includes a little of their saliva, the enzymes in which break the more complex sugars in nectar down to glucose and fructose, so your 'concentrated nectar' would not be the same as true honey.
A bumble bee is a bee -- just a different sort of bee.Bumble bees do collect nectar and make honey, but not in large enough quantities to make it worth harvesting.However bumble bees are excellent Pollinators, so bumble Bees can be worth keeping. Farmers will pay you money to lend them your hives for the season so that the bumble bees pollinate their crops.