The bees

Bees are insects with the ability to fly and are well known for making rich honey and also beeswax are linked to wasps and ants, bees feed on nectar and pollen, the first one especially as an energy source and the second mainly to obtain proteins and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.

There are at least 10,000 species of bees, the best known are the meliferas, which make honey and wax, the bumblebees, the wax of the bees is used to make candles, facial creams and wax figures, honey is the food of the bees, it has also been for man for thousands of years.

The worker bees and bumblebees live in large groups called hives, a hive can have 30,000 to 80,000 thousand bees, in each hive there are many workers, but only one queen.

The bees live in nests called honeycombs, usually built on tree trunks and in caves, the worker bees build them with wax. All bees feed on the nectar and pollen of flowers, transport pollen from one flower to another, pollen is a very fine powder that helps flowers to produce new plants.

The worker bees take care of the eggs and the young.

Bees store honey in small cubicles called cells.