A honey bee gathers nectar from yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis. - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Honey Bees & Beekeeping

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Fall foragers return to the hive.

A worker honey bee, Apis mellifera. The relative hairiness of bees helps them to collect pollen and to regulate their body temperature.

On a busy afternoon foragers come and go from the hive.

A honey bee gathers nectar from yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis.

A beekeeper examines a frame of honey.

Apis is not the only honey-making bee. In the new world tropics, colonies of jataí stingless bees (Tetragonisca angustula) are commonly kept for small-scale honey production. Jataí honey is relatively thin, but it fetches a higher market price for its purportedly greater medicinal value.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

A honey bee gathers nectar from yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis.

A honey bee gathers nectar from yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis.

A honey bee gathers nectar from yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis.

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