A block of pure beeswax, obtained by melting comb. Beeswax is highly prized for candles, as it burns exceptionally clean, and is also used for cosmetics, medicine, and a host of other applications. - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

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A worker honey bee fans air over the exposed Nasonov gland near the tip of her abdomen. The pheromones produced by the gland help other bees orient to the colony.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

A worker honey bee fans air over the exposed Nasonov gland near the tip of her abdomen. The orientation pheromones produced by the gland help other bees orient to the colony.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

With summer temperatures near 95ºF (36ºC), workers cluster outside the hive in a behavior known as "bearding".

Scores of worker bees fan their wings at the hive entrance on warm afternoons.

Langstroth hives overwintering with two hive bodies each.

A block of pure beeswax, obtained by melting comb. Beeswax is highly prized for candles, as it burns exceptionally clean, and is also used for cosmetics, medicine, and a host of other applications.

A drone egg sits in the bottom of a cell.

Honey bee eggs are laid upright, glued to the bottom of a cell.

Bee eggs and young larvae. The milky substance is a glandular secretion from the heads of adult bees that is fed to larvae.

A block of pure beeswax, obtained by melting comb. Beeswax is highly prized for candles, as it burns exceptionally clean, and is also used for cosmetics, medicine, and a host of other applications.

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