This article refers collectively to all true honey bees; for the "common" domesticated honey bee, see
Western honey bee Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of
bees which represent a far smaller fraction of bee diversity than most people suspect; of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees, there are only seven presently-recognized species with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999; historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized). These bees are the only living members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis, and all of which produce and store liquefied
sugar ("
honey") to some degree, and construct colonial nests out of
wax secreted by the workers in the colony. Other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are considered true honey bees.
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شہد کي مکھي, نحل, مد ماکھي