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How are honeybees helful to flowers?

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Hornets usually eat live insects.

Some other large wasps are sometimes referred to as hornets such as the Bald-faced hornet which visits flowers, especially in late summer, and can be minor pollinators. In the fall, yellowjackets may be attracted to human foods and food wastes.

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Yes, they aid in pollination.

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honney bees can help crops.

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What do honeybees eat with?

Honeybees only eat nectar from flowers. The honeybees also eat pollen. The honeybees are a very important part of the worlds ecosystem.


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What would happen if honeybees disappeared?

There would be no bees to pollenate the flowers.


What are honeybees attracted to?

Flowers, trees and shrubs that produce pollen and/or nectar.


Do honeybees capture prey by distracting it?

Honeybees don't prey on other animals or insects - their sole diet is pollen and nectar obtained from flowers.


Where are honeybees normally found?

Colonies and flowers are places where honeybees normally are found. The colonies may be housed in above-ground hives or nests. The flowers tend to be bright-colored, nectar- and pollen-rich, and single-petaled.


What is the powdery dust from flowers collected by honeybees?

Pollen. It's part of most flowers' reproductive process, and provides protein in a honeybee's diet. As honeybees collect pollen to return it to their hive, they incidentally spread pollen from flower to flower, accomplishing pollination.


How can you help save the honeybees?

By planting bee friendly flowers, shrubs and trees in your garden and not using insecticides on those plants.


What do some insects use for lapping up nector?

Butterflies and honeybees are equipped with siphons for lapping up nectar in flowers.


Do African honeybees pollinate flowers?

Yes, African honeybees pollinate flowers. The insects in question (Apis mellifera scutellata) sip upon nectar and take away pollen, just like other bees. They therefore will have to be considered, despite their invasive aggressiveness, among the world's beneficial insects and insect pollinators.


How are honeybees helpful to us?

Honeybees carry pollen from one plant to another, increasing the number of flowers that "set", and grow into fruits and vegetables. Orchard owners hire beekeepers to bring beehives into the orchards to increase the size of the apple harvest. Without honeybees, production of many foods would drop sharply.


Why are honeybees called honeybees?

Because they make honey