Honeybee on orange flower is a photograph by Iris Richardson which was uploaded on August 11th, 2014.
Honeybee on orange flower
Honeybee on orange flower against a yellow backdrop. A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the... more
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Honeybee on orange flower
Artist
Iris Richardson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Honeybee on orange flower against a yellow backdrop. A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. In the early 21st century, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies,[1] though historically six to eleven species are recognized. The best-known honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees.[2] Some other types of related bees produce and store honey and have been kept by humans for that purpose, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees, which includes the study of honey bees, is known as melittology
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August 11th, 2014
