(1) No other insect has such a high level of communication skills as Apis mellifera, the honeybee ; no other insect lives in such a complicated, sophisticated social society.(2) In fact, the effect is not much greater than a sting from a regular honeybee .(3) A worker honeybee that stings us to defend her mother and other family members in the hive is doomed, for she cannot extract her barbed stinger from her victim without ripping out her innards in the process.(4) A honeybee can carry on its body about 5 million pollen grains at a time - which then brush off onto other flowers of the same species to pollinate them, Lin said.(5) The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flowers to other members of the hive.(6) Native Himalayan cliff bees must now compete with European honeybees for nectar.(7) Last year he experimented with honeybees , placing hives around fields in the hopes that the stinging insects would deter elephants from raiding crops.(8) Plants use various means to entice animals to do the work of spreading plant genes, whether the animals are human farmers or pollen-bearing honeybees .(9) So, to clarify, honeybees go out and collect nectar.(10) Even accounting for native bee pollinators, honeybees still do most of the pollinating of fruits and vegetables in your garden.(11) In all experiments, the numbers of codling moths, honeybees , and muscoid flies were counted in each trap.(12) Although yellow jackets are social insects like honeybees , they use their nests for only one season.(13) The report also concluded that earthworms do not feel pain when placed on a fishhook, but that some types of insects such as honeybees might deserve special care.(14) It is thought that honeybees can gather nectar and pollen from Australian plants without pollinating the plants.(15) Bee pollen consists of blended pollen grains collected by honeybees from a wide variety of plants.(16) Adult worker honeybees were caught from four different hives.
