A honeybee returns to her hive in Urbana, Illinois.
A honeybee forager visits fall asters in Urbana, Illinois
A tagged honeybee scouting a hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) flower out.
A honeybee scout takes a sample of nectar from a flower.
A scout bee approaches Chinese cabbage flowers.
A honeybee scout investigates a flower of star thistle.
A scout bee approaches a flower of California poppy.
A honeybee returns to her hive in Urbana, Illinois.
scout bee (top) comes home and shares her findings with another forager.
A wild bee (the bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii) and a honey bee forage together on a sunflower. Honey bees that interact with wild, native bees are up to five times more efficient in pollinating sunflowers.
A colony of honeybees. An unknown pathogen is pushing the industrious honeybee to disaster as scientists scurry to figure out what the cause is. Early results of a key study by the USDA and Pennsylvania State University point towards some kind of disease or parasite. About one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants and the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the USDA.
A honeybee (Apis mellifera) forages for pollen on a daisy-like flower in a cultivated garden on a winter day in Africa.
Giant honeybees, native to Asia, can be twice the size of Western honeybees. This species performs a shimmering wave to ward off predatory wasps.
This nest of Asian dwarf red honeybees is built as a single comb from a twig, making it accessible to invading workers from other colonies once the queen dies.
An A. borealis larvae crawls out of a dead honeybee.
