This area has links that try to explain the medicinal and agricultural importance of the Honeybee. A page with a large selection of books, links, and research about using bee venom. This site has a lot of good information about the uses of the different bee products, both from a nutritional and a scientific standpoint. The Color of Honey Interesting article about the antioxidant properties of honey. Biology of Honeybees Understanding the relationship between bees and plants is crucial to human use of bees.
Honeybees are very efficient pollinators of flowers and crops.
Farmers in developing countries have found increased yields after placing beehives near their fields. They also raise bees to insure pollination. Honeybees probably originated in Tropical Africa and spread from South Africa to Northern Europe and West into India and China. They were brought to the Americas with the first colonists and are now distributed world-wide. The first bees appear in the fossil record in deposits dating about 40 million years ago in the Eocene.