Honey Bee Research Paper

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my favorite insect is a bee.

bee’s drink most of the honey and nector from most of the flowers. There are birds called the bee eater that eats bee’s. Us humans depend on bees for honey. The venus fly trap also eats bees along with other insects such as flys and whosps.

i believe that bee’s have a very important part in the ecosystem. Bee’s help the humans by producing most of the honey we have and all around in the united states. Bee’s have an important part in the ecosystem even though they are eaten by the bee eater, the venis fly trap, and many more predators. Bee’s have a source of protection by using their stinger. Bee’s usually slowly start dying after stinging a predator. Most bee’s are very hard workers for their bee hive. There
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Bees live in almost any biome. you can find a bee literally anywhere you go. There are many types of bees and there are many families in the bee specie. There are the bee families called the Apidae, Megachilidae, Andrenidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Melittidae, Meganomiidae, Dasypodaidae and many more. These families all have different jobs. Mosltey all the bees in the hives collect honey. A lot of the time bees do their job in groups. My three most favorite bees are the Bumbnle bee, the Carter bee, and the Yellow faced bumble bee. The bumble bee is a member of the bee genus bombos in the family of apidae and the scientific name for this bee is bombus. The Carter bee is a speice of the bumble bee, you can find them mostley in europe in a wide vierty such as meadows, pastures, waste, gorund, ditches, embankments, roads, and feilds margins, the scientific name for this bee is bumbus pascuorum.m The yellow faced bee is also a specie of the bumble bee but from native to the west coast of north america, these bees can be found in urban and agricultural ares, the scientific name for this bee is bombus …show more content…
The megachilidae family involves mostly solitary bees also leaf cutter and mason bees. The andrenidae family includes the mining bees, a very large family with a veriety amount of species, There is over 13,000 species alone. The colletidae family is known to have around 2,000 species and includes plasterer and yellow faced bees. The halictidae family also known as the “sweet bees” are one of the smallest bees and usually are the darkest bees, some have green and or yellow and red markings. The melittidae family is a very small family in africa, they have only around 60 species belonging to only four genres. The meganomiidae family is also very small family with only about ten species in four genres and usually found in africa. The dasypodaldae family, usually called “dasypodidae” is also a very small family from africa with one hundred species and eight genres. The stenotritidae is also a small family with twenty one species and two genres, these bees are from australlia and are part of the colletidae

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