The World of Bees

• The Honey Bee L'abeille A Miel (apidae)
  
  • Honey Bees are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey as a food source and the construction of perennial nests out of wax.
  • There are three castes of Honey Bees:
    
    • Queens which produce eggs
    • Drones (males) which mate with new queens and have no stinger
    • Workers which are all non-reproducing females
• Bumble Bee (apidae)
• Melittid Bee (melittidae)
• Mining Bee (andrenidae)
• Large Carpenter Bee (apidae
• Plasterer Bee (colletidae)
• Cuckoo Bee (apidae)
• Yellow-Faced Beed (colletidae)
• Wool Carder Bee (anthidium manicatum)
• Leaf Cutting Bee (megachilidae)
• Halictid Bee (halictidae)
• Digger Bee (apidae)

Internal Anatomy of a Bee

• Antenna
• Brain
• Dorsal Aorta
• Esophagus
• Heart
• Intestine
• Rectum
• Stinger
  The sting is barbed so that it lodges in the victim's skin, tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to the bee's death
• Venom Sac
• Crop
• Ventral Nervous System
• Salivary Gland
• Pharynx

The Beehive
A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus apis) live and raise their young.

The internal structure of the hive compresses a densely packed matrix of hexagonal cells made of beeswax and is called a honeycomb. The cells are used for storage of food (honey and pollen) and for housing the brood (eggs, larvae, and pupai).

Bee Products Include

• Pollen
• Wax
• Royal Jelly
• Honey