How many species of honey-producing bees are there?eliochelJan 24, 20231 min readThere are about 12 species in the genus Apis that produce harvestable honey.
Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.
Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.
Bees "hear" with their legs.It makes sense that bees would "hear" the vibrations we call sound waves with their antennae, but "hearing" with their legs? A group, of sensors on the bee's tibia, called the subgenual organ, pick up