Stock Photo: Flower, Bee, Yellow, Honey, Sweet, Wallace Bee
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Honey bees are winged insects that are closely related to the family of ants and honey bees. These insects are known for their important role in pollination, as well as the production of honey and wax by some European honey bee species. More than 16,000 bee species in seven different biological families are known worldwide. Some bees, including honey bees, pollinating bees, and stingless bees, live socially and in a colony, but most species (more than 90 percent), including flowering bees, harvester bees, leaf-picking bees, and honey bees, live solitary lives. Bees are found on all continents except Antarctica, in most habitats with flowering plants. The most common bees in the Northern Hemisphere are the honey bees, which are small and often confused with honey bees or flies. The size of the bees varies from the tiny species of stingless bees whose workers are less than 2 mm in size, to the large Wallace bee, the largest species of leaf-cutter bees, whose female sex can reach 39 mm in length.
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