a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

W. H. Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing powers of honey, and because fermented honey ( mead ) preceded wine as an entheogen in the Aegean world ; on some Minoan seals, goddesses were represented with bee faces ( compare Merope and Melissa ).

Other words thought by some Latter-day Saints to derive from the Adamic language include deseret (" honey bee ", see Ether 2: 3 and Ahman (" God ").

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee.

Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species ( both wild and domesticated ) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally varying high-demand areas of pollination.

Morphology ( biology ) | Morphology of a female honey bee

In 2009 some reports from the US suggested that 1 / 3 of the honey bee colonies did not survive the winter, though normal winter losses are known to be around 25 %.

In 2005, Michael Dickinson and his Caltech colleagues studied honey bee flight with the assistance of high-speed cinematography and a giant robotic mock-up of a bee wing.

* Colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon involving the abrupt disappearance of the worker bees in a beehive or Western honey bee colony

A honey bee on Calyx ( botany ) | calyx of goldenrod

By contriving for bee swarms to nest in artificial hives, people have been able to semidomesticate the insects, and harvest excess honey.

The painting is a Mesolithic rock painting, showing two honey-hunters collecting honey and honeycomb from a wild bee nest.

Pliny the Elder devotes considerable space in his book Naturalis Historia to the bee and honey, and its many uses.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period, there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen, taking a sip from time to time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots.

American fag hag synonyms include fruit fly, queen bee, homo honey, fruit loop, Goldilocks, flame dame, fairy princess, gabe ( a portmanteau of " gay " and " babe "), Tori ( in honor of Tori Spelling and Tori Amos ), and fairy godmother.

Small swarms of Africanized bees are capable of taking over European honey bee hives by invading the hive and establishing their own queen after killing the European queen.

The Africanized honey bees in the Western Hemisphere are of mixed descent from 26 Tanganyikan queen bees of A. m. scutellata, accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 near Rio Claro, São Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil, from hives operated by biologist Warwick E. Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

Frisch's honey bee work included the study of the pheromones that are emitted by the queen bee and her daughters, which maintain the hive's very complex social order.

The eggs that hatch develop into female workers, and in time the queen populates the colony, with workers feeding the young and performing other duties similar to honey bee workers.

In the late winter and early spring as the brood cycle begins, the queen starts to lay eggs within the winter cluster in proximity to available honey stores.

Some beekeepers ensure that the queen will not go into the upper boxes ( called supers or honey supers ) by placing a screen called a queen excluder between the boxes.

Some beekeepers do not use excluders, but try to keep the queen within the intended brood area by keeping a honey barrier of capped honey, which the queen is reluctant to cross, above the brood.

carniolan honey bee | Carniolan queen bee with attendants on a honeycomb.

The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive ; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive.

The term " queen bee " can be more generally applied to any dominant reproductive female in a colony of a eusocial bee species other than honey bees.

Many species in the subfamily Halictinae are eusocial at least in part, with fairly well-defined queen and worker castes ( though not the same as the caste system in honey bees ), and certain manifestations of their social behavior appear to be facultative in various lineages.

It is not necessary to exclude the queen from the honey stores as some think is necessary using the Langstroth stacked box hive.

The life of all honey bees starts as an egg, which is laid by the queen in the bottom of a wax cell in the brood area of a hive.

** Feed royal jelly to the queen larva and drones receive worker jelly for 1 to 3 days at which time they are started on a diet of honey and pollen.

In honey bees, the genetics of offspring can best be controlled by artificially inseminating a queen with drones collected from a single hive, where the drones ' mother is known.

Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs.

In captivity they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.

Similar hams from Tennessee and the Appalachians have a similar method of preparation, but may include honey in their cures and be hickory smoked.

Melting 20 kilograms of crystallized honey, at, can take up to 24 hours, while 50 kilograms may take twice as long.

* Multiple sperm lines may confer more variation in traits to female's offspring, this seems to be the case in the honey bee where bees from different sperm lines excel at different roles within a single hive, benefiting the health of the hive as a whole.

These coatings may include honey and water ; powdered sugar and water ; cigar ash and water ; and sour cream, buttermilk, and activated charcoal among many others.

Lucretius compares his work in this poem to that of a doctor healing a child: just as the doctor may put honey on the rim of a cup containing bitter wormwood ( most likely Absinth Wormwood ) believed to have healing properties, the patient is " tricked " into accepting something beneficial but difficult to swallow, " but not deceived " by the doctor.

It may also be produced by fermenting a solution of water and honey with grain mash, which is strained after fermentation.

Some meads retain some measure of the sweetness of the original honey, and some may even be considered as dessert wines.

They can also be steeped in boiling water to make ginger tea, to which honey is often added ; sliced orange or lemon fruit may also be added.

Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey.

The structure of the comb may be left basically intact when honey is extracted from it by uncapping and spinning in a centrifugal machine — the honey extractor.

From the perspective of those affected, these effects may be negative ( pollution from a factory ), or positive ( honey bees kept for honey that also pollinate crops ).

The value generated by the pollination may be more important than the value of the harvested honey.

Exploitation can occur at the community level as is sometimes seen throughout coastal villages of Southern Thailand where each resident may obtain for themselves every consumable of the mangrove forest ( fuelwood, timber, honey, resins, crab, and shellfish ) which then becomes threatened through increasing population and continual harvest.

It may be derived from the Latin for honey ( the area had an abundance of honey bees and this may have also been the origin of the previous Sweet Hollow name ).

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Insecticides can kill bees and may be a cause of pollinator decline, the loss of bees that pollinate plants, and colony collapse disorder ( CCD ), in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear.

As well as a round, unleavened loaf of bread and salt, which are necessary, this meal may comprise roast fish, cooked beans, sauerkraut, noodles with ground walnuts, honey, and wine.