12 Facts About Honey bee

Honey bee is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to Afro-Eurasia.

Only eight surviving species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 43 subspecies, though historically 7 to 11 species are recognized.

The only other domesticated bee is the eastern honey bee, which occurs in South, Southeast, and East Asia.

Koschevnikov's honey bee is often referred to in the literature as the "red bee of Sabah"; however, A koschevnikovi is pale reddish in Sabah State, Borneo, Malaysia, but a dark, coppery color in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, Indonesia.

Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia.

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However, other native Honey bee species were kept and traded by indigenous peoples.

The dominant monosaccharides in honey bee diets are fructose and glucose but the most common circulating sugar in hemolymph is trehalose which is a disaccharide consisting of two glucose molecules.

Only domesticated species of honey bee are A mellifera and A cerana, and they are often maintained, fed, and transported by beekeepers.

Honey bee venom is under laboratory and clinical research for its potential properties and uses in reducing risks for adverse events from bee venom therapy, rheumatoid arthritis, and use as an immunotherapy for protection against allergies from insect stings.

Your Lord taught the honey bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in habitations; Then to eat of all the produce, and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.

Western honey bee foragers loaded with pollen on the hive landing board.

Western honey bee collecting pollen from turnip blossoms in Eastern Oklahoma.