Honey Bee on white and purple petaled flower, mountain mint HD wallpaper

Wallpaper detail:

Wallpaper size:

1291 x 1152

File size:

206.96KB

Resolution:

720P

Format:

image/jpeg

Uploaded:

2017-10-09

Wallpaper keywords:

• Honey Bee,
• Mountain Mint,
• white,
• purple,
• flower,
• honey bee,
• citizen-scientist,
• Pennsylvania,
• Department,
• Agriculture,
• Penn State,
• Master Gardener Program,
• taxonomy,
• binomial,
• Apis mellifera,
• Favorite,
• NW10,
• bee,
• insect,
• nature,
• pollination,
• pollen,
• honey,
• close-up,
• macro,
• springtime,
• animal,
• plant

Wallpaper dominant color:

• dark olive green
• olive drab

Wallpaper info:

About honey bee

A honey bee (or honeybee) is any bee member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. Currently, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically, from six to eleven species have been recognized. The best known honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees including honey bees is known as melittology.

About mountain mint

Pycnanthemum is a genus of plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae). They are commonly known as mountain mints (or mountain-mints, mountainmints), though "the mountain mint" may also be any locally common species in particular. Some are known as koellias, after an obsolete genus name.