Other Bee Lists Importance of Bees General Resources Bees Bees have a barbed stinger at the base of their abdomen which carries their venom. The bee forces the tip of the stinger through the skin of the victim and leaves the stinger, poison sack and attached muscle in the victim's skin. It may take hundreds of bee stings to inflict a fatal toxic dose of venom in a healthy adult.
Honey bees produce beeswax from eight paired glands on the underside of their abdomen.
Bees Bees comprise a highly diverse group of hymenopterous insects in the Sonoran Desert region. The ability of honey bees to share information about floral patch feeding sites breatly helps their colonies achieve efficiency in foraging. Whenever a scout bee discovers a new rich food source, she recruits nestmates to it and thus helps ensure that her colony's forager force stays focused on the richest available patches. A big black and yellow very hairy insect buzzes rapidly from flower to flower in the garden. That was a bumblebee busily gathering up sweet nectar and dustlike pollen grains from snap dragon, pea and other blossoms on sunny days.