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Apis mellifera visiting capitulum of Parkia biglobosa around 06:02 am, collecting the yellow pollen, Pinyiri, Burkina Faso
Honey Bee. (Apis mellifera).-collecting its daily harvest.
Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Species of Apis are generalist floral visitors, and will pollinate a large variety of plants, but by no means all plants. Of all the honey bee species, only Apis mellifera has been used extensively for commercial pollination of crops and other plants.
All honey bees live in colonies where the worker bees will sting intruders as a form of defense, and alarmed bees will release a pheromone that stimulates the attack response in other bees.-so beware!
wikipedia sourced.
A hollow log coated with clay makes for a comfy home for Apis Florea - a tiny species of honeybee that produces a very small quantity of medicinal that is said to have medicinal properties.
Aampbotay
Near Darjeeling
West Bengal / Gorkhaland, India
Fall 2011
Apis dorsata worker (Hym. Apidae), the giant asian honey bee, on Tarphochlamys affini (Acanthaceae), 28.iii.2011, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, 28.iii.2011, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.
Somewhere @ St. Margherita pine-wood, Pula (CA), southern Sardinia.
A very greedy bee. Hey, let something for us too! =)
Shot with Nikon Coolpix L5