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The bee is one of the best-known insects and perhaps the best seen on a popular level due to its work as pollinators that serves the human being. The bee o Apis mellifera, according to its scientific name, it is a insect that belongs to the family Apoidea, that is, a group of insects characterized by having a sting to defend themselves and that can vary in their conduct social, although most of them prove to be social and live together with others. Another typical characteristic of the insects belonging to this family is that they usually feed their own larvae.

It is considered that there are thousands of species of bees, only some of them have been identified and known by man, and in certain sense also domesticated, being that perhaps many of them that remain unknown or not completely identified live in the wild. For today's scientists, the number of species of bees can easily amount to more than 20 thousand. Because their main activity is pollination, bees have been found in all habitats (on all continents) where there is vegetation with

flowers. The only continentObviously, where we cannot find them is in Antarctica.

Of all the insects that are part of the Apoidea family, the domestic bee (that is, the one that we know and use for production of honey) is one of the most sociable since it lives in swarms or groups of thousands of specimens. In these sets of bees you can find a clear social distinction that makes there a queen bee, worker bees and drones. The place that each bee occupies in the swarm will depend on the tasks that it fulfills.

To carry out pollination correctly, bees have been naturally endowed with a very small electric charge (which in contact with humans does not exert any power) and which is what allows pollen to easily adhere to its organisms hairy. The pollen is transported inside its body and taken to the nests where the group of bees will transform it into honey. There are different types of bees since some of them only obtain pollen from a very small number of flowers and others obtain it from any type of flower. For this they also have a developed sense of smell that allows them to easily and quickly locate the flowers in the vegetation.

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