Honey bees
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Bees are flying insects, part of
Apoidea family which also contains hornets and ants, that feed with flower nectar and
pollen, this process conducting to flower pollination and producing
honey.
The
pollen which, inevitably, bees loose it in their journey from a flower to another is important for plants in order to achieve pollination.
Bees are, actually, the most important pollination insects and interacting process between them and plants is an example for a well-known symbiosis 'mutualism', a partnership between species beneficial to both.
On the other hand some bees species produces
honey from nectar.
Bees that produces honey and
bees whitout needle gather large quantities of
honey, feature which is exploited by
beekeepers, who gather
honey for human consumption.
Honey is a
bee product which is obtained by transforming and processing nectar by
bees and is stored in the cells of the
combs in order to form resources for
beehive. Obtaining
honey is the main purpose for beekeeping in the past and nowadays.
Honey bees was the first sweet substance used by human, being used especially by priests in their rituals. There are enough testimonies that
honey was used in the ancient civilizations to prepare one kind of alcohol by adding
pollen and
combs, but the oldest documents regarding
honey are two writing fragments in the summerian language...
Further information ...here
The source: http://wikipedia.org.
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