Honey Bees

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Honey bees, like the one pictured collecting pollen from a rose here, are from the insect order Hymenoptera. Honey bees were introduced into the United States in Colonial America.

These highly social insects communicate with each other, relaying direction and distance of nectar and pollen sources, using a sort of “dance.”

There are three types of bee found in a hive: the queen, which is the only reproductively capable female, the drones, male bees whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen, and the workers, which are the smallest bees in the colony and are undeveloped females. These are the bees we see flitting from flower to flower to flower.

The buzzing of a bee is created by its rapidly flapping wings, which can beat at more than 11,000 times per minute.�