difference between "bee" and "honeybee"

[keannu]

What is the difference between "bee" and "honeybee"?
When you hear "honeybee", do you think of the bees making and feeding on "honey"?
What about ordinary "bees"? Do they feed on different foods except for "honey"?

 

[Rover_KE]

That's like asking 'What's the difference between a bird and a sparrow?

Click here.

Not an apiarist.

 

[GoesStation]

Honeybees don't feed on honey. They make it from the nectar they collect and feed it to their larvae. Other types of bees may also make honey, but people generally only harvest the honey made by honeybees.

 

[Skrej]

Not all bees produce honey, so honeybees get their name from the production of larger amounts of honey as well as beeswax. Relatively few (like 7-11 species) of the some 20,000 known bee species are classified as honeybees.

Surprisingly, while honeybees are of course highly social and live in large groups, many bees are actually solitary in nature, or live in very small groups.

The most common honeybee is the Western Honeybee. It's the most popular for beekeeping because relative to its size, it produces much more honey and beeswax than other bees (even larger bees), lives happily in artificially constructed hives, lives in large swarms (i.e. produce more honey and wax), and can be tricked into producing more honey than they need.


I'm not an apiarist either, but I have considered it. Fascinating creatures, really, and unlike wasps, will leave you alone if you leave them alone.

Wasps, however, are just a**holes.

 

[emsr2d2]

Wasps, however, are just a**holes.

***Off-topic: https://www.treehugger.com/animals/why-we-should-learn-love-wasps.html

 

[Tarheel]

***Off-topic: https://www.treehugger.com/animals/why-we-should-learn-love-wasps.html

Wow! Much about wasps! Interesting stuff!
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