A bee (superfamily Apoidea) is any of more than 20,000 species of insects in the suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), which includes the familiar...

The principal biological difference between bees and wasps is that bees (except for parasitic bees) provide their young with a mixture of pollen an...

Male bees are usually short-lived and never collect pollen, nor do they have other responsibilities providing for the young. Female bees do all the...

Most bees are solitary, or nonsocial, in habit, and do not live in colonies. Among such bees, there are no castes. Some solitary bees make chimneys...

The practical value of bees as pollinators of crops is enormously greater than the value of their honey and wax production. There is no doubt that...