### animal | arthropod | insect | bee:

Honey bee
* All honey bees travel in swarms when searching for new nesting sites.
* All honey bees undergo complete metamorphosis, but the time from egg to adult varies by subspecies
* Most honey bee queens live for years.
* Most honey bees collect pollen
  - feed on nectar
* Most honey bees have compound eyes
  - exoskeletons
  - methods
  - movement
  - skin
  - vision
* Most honey bees live in climates
  - environments
  - habitats
  - societies
  - temperate climates
  - tropical habitats
* Most honey bees produce other products
  - return to hives
* Most honey bees thrive in environments
  - natural environments
* Most honey bees undergo complete metamorphosis
  - visit flowers
* Some honey bees consume honey.
* Some honey bees have bones
  - effective strategies
  - kinds
  - make honeydew into a dark , strong honey , called honeydew honey
  - powder their feet as they leave the hive to gather nectar from flowers
* Some honey bees use heat
  - liquids
  - metabolic heat
  - visit yards
* appear to be satisfactory pollinators of A. sinensis.
* are a major agricultural resource
  - vital link in U.S. agriculture
* are an essential component of the agricultural environment
  - excellent source of honey and beeswax
  - important pollinator of many plants
  - as vital to many crops as water, fertilizer, and sunlight
  - beneficial insects
  - by far the most important pollinators of both cultivated and wild flora
  - capable of sting
  - essential for successful cucumber pollination and production
  - extremely effective pollinators
  - golden or yellow-brown in color
  - good pollinators for many reasons
  - hairy
* are important for proper, complete pollination and fruit set
  - pollinators because they can be managed and easily moved to crop sites
  - like flying Velcro
  - more closely related to ants than to butterflies and moths
* are most important because they pollinate fruit crops and many flowering vegetables
  - likely to sting when an established colony is disturbed
  - one of the most familiar social insects
  - perennial insects with colonies that survive more than one year
  - responsible for pollinating a variety of fruits, vegetables, legumes and more
  - sensitive to unusual odors, such as cut grass, and to loud vibrations
* are social creatures and live in colonies
  - somewhat smaller in size with light orange or tan and black coloration
  - subject to parasites and diseases
* are the bees with the best public image
  - best pollinating agents of raspberries
* are the chief pollinator of fruit trees
  - visitors to black medic flowers
  - main pollinator used in kiwifruit vineyards
  - major pollinator
* are the most important agents in the pollination of the radish
  - pollinators of many fruits, vegetables, flowers and crops
* are the only bees that keep the same nest year to year
  - insect that produces food eaten by man
  - stinging insects that leave a stinger in the wound
  - primary pollinating agents
* are the primary pollinators of berseem
  - rapeseed
  - visitors to sesame flowers
  - single most important pollinators of flowering plants
  - unlikely to make many repeat visits if a plant provides little in the way of reward
  - unusually industrious insects
* are used commercially to pollinate watermelon crops
  - produce honey
* are usually necessary for commercial production of highbush blueberries
  - very good at protecting their colonies from moth larvae
  - very adaptable
* are very important insect pollinators
  - pollinators of many plants
  - much a part of the modern American agricultural picture
  - social in that they all live together in home, or apiary
* can learn to associate olfactory stimuli with a sucrose reward.
* cause concern under two circumstances
  - more deaths in the United States every year than snakes, sharks or jellyfish
* collect flower nectar and convert it to honey , which is stored in the hive
  - nectar from different floral sources
* convert nectar from plants into honey which is also chemically similar to sucrose.
* derive their protein nutrition from pollen.
* detect and destroy diploid drones after the eggs hatch.
* die after they sting someone.
* do little dances to communicate to fellow bees.
* enlist a caste system to accomplish the tasks that ensure survival of the colony.
* fail to update their solar ephemerides after a displacement.
* fan their wings to cool their colony.
* feed on nectar and pollen from flowers
* forage on yellow sweet clover and staghorn sumac flowers.
* gather propolis from trees and other vegetation
  - water they use to dilute honey to be fed to larvae and to cool the hive
* generate heat by consuming honey and shivering their muscles.
* have a barbed stinger and usually leave it behind at the site of the sting
  - sophisticated method of communication
  - variant of the same foraging gene that controls the onset of foraging behavior
  - barbed stingers that usually remain in the sting
  - barbs on their stinger which remain hooked in the skin
  - lots of little hairs on their body
  - such magnet-like things, as do some birds and some dolphins
  - tiny barbs on their stinger that remain hooked in the skin
* help crops grow by pollinating plants.
* increase the number of colonies and the probability of survival by swarming.
* leave behind their stinging sac and venom sac.
* leave their hives and do very well in hollow trees
  - stinger behind when they sting, which kills the bee
* live in a colony of many individuals whose joint effort is required for survival
  - dangerous world
  - bee hives
  - large family groups called colonies
  - sophisticated, well organised societies
* live, breed and produce honey in a hive.
* make a series of vertical honey combs made of wax
  - and do things that are helpful to humans
  - honey from nectar found inside the flower blossom
  - wax and shape it into honeycombs
* move from site to site by swarming.
* need carbohydrates
  - supplemental food
* nest in a wide variety of places, especially Africanized honey bees
  - large cavities such as hollowed-out trees
* obtain greater rewards of nectar or pollen from some plants than others.
* play a critical role in agriculture
  - part in the production of an estimated one-third of the typical American diet
* pollinate many types of plants, including vegetables, fruit trees and flowers
  - more flowers than any other insect
* produce a gummy substance called propolis, which they convert from tree sap
  - beeswax from eight paired glands on the underside of their abdomen
  - honey, pollen and beeswax and pollinate many valuable crops
  - numerous products that are useful to man
* provide honey and pollinate crops.
* queens naturally store semen for several years.
* rely on their sense of vision to locate flowers.
* reproduce by swarming where part of the old colony leaves to seek a new homesite.
* require a balanced diet.
* seem to be suitable pollinators
* spend a great deal of time resting and patrolling.
* stay in hives during the winter, and form clusters when temperatures fall.
* store honey they can consume later.
* swarm as part of the colony s reproductive process.
* tend to be covered with pale yellow fuzzy hairs without a distinctive stripe pattern
  - most active in spring, when they are collecting pollen
  - defend their new home against any inexperienced intruder
* use caves, rock cavities and hollow trees as natural nesting sites
  - pollen and nectar from plants as the sole source of food
  - two systems of feeding larvae
* visit New England aster and chrysanthemum flowers.
* visit a wide variety of flower types
  - wider variety of flower types than any other insect
  - flowers to collect pollen and nectar for food
  - pears primarily for pollen
* visit the flowers eagerly for both nectar and pollen
  - freely
+ Honeydew: Botany :: Insects
  * Honeydew is collected by some insects, such as some wasps and bees. Some honey bees make honeydew into a dark, strong honey, called honeydew honey. Honeydew honey is valuable in parts of Europe and Asia because people think it can be used as a medicine.
+ Thermoregulation, Ectotherms: Physiology :: Zoology
  * Many supposedly cold-blooded animals do things to keep their temperature higher than the surrounding air or water. Fast-moving fish, like tunny, and some sharks, keep their temperature above the level of the surrounding water. Reptiles such as lizards and snakes sit in the sun when they are cold and in the shade when they are hot. Some insects control their temperature, especially colonial insects. Honey bees fan their wings to cool their colony. However, many smaller invertebrates do not control their body temperature at all.