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 mixture of …

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 (Apis) …

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 Month Contest.

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 common bees in …

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 the honey …

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 pairs of wings.

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 purposes only.

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 bee is …

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 …