Bees are best known for their ecological roles as pollinators and, in the case of the best-known species, the western honey bee, for producing honey, a regurgitated and dehydrated viscous …

Nov 16, 2025 · What is a bee? A bee (superfamily Apoidea) is any of more than 20,000 species of insects in the suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), which includes the familiar honeybee …

Congratulations to club members: Walt Hersing for his Queen Cup Bee photo and Johnny Jones for his Flower Bee photo. These members tied for first place in the October 2025 Photo of the …

Jul 7, 2024 · Honeybees and bumblebees are the iconic representatives of this busy and buzzy insect, but there are actually more than 20,000 different species of bee.

Can you tell a bee from a wasp? Or a honeybee from a carpenter bee? These vital pollinators can be tricky to tell apart at first glance, but this visual guide can help you identify the most …

The family Apidae is the largest bee family and includes a wide variety of native bee species, and also the nonnative honey bee. In fact, the name of the family comes from the Latin name for …

Like all insects, a bee’s body is divided into three parts: a head with two antennae, a thorax with six legs, and an abdomen. All bees have branched hairs somewhere on their bodies and two …

FDACS maintains a list of Registered Beekeepers and Certified Pest Control Operators who perform bee removal and/or eradication services. FDACS provides this list for reference …

Bees can be broadly classified into two types – the social bees, which form colonies consisting of a fertile queen, workers, and drones, and the solitary and communal bees, where every female …

The honey bee life cycle consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. A queen lays eggs in individual wax cells in the hive, and depending on the diet fed to the larvae, they develop into …