shallow focus of bee on pink flower during daytime, honey bee, apis mellifera HD wallpaper

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2169 x 1446

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320.99KB

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1080P

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image/jpeg

Uploaded:

2017-09-03

Wallpaper keywords:

• Honey Bee,
• Apis mellifera,
• Linnaeus,
• shallow focus,
• pink,
• flower,
• daytime,
• insect,
• bee,
• nature,
• pollination,
• macro,
• pollen,
• close-up,
• summer,
• plant,
• honey,
• animal

Wallpaper dominant color:

• dark slate gray
• rosy brown
• pink

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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 apis mellifera

The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the ~40 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee", and mellifera means "honey-bearing", referring to the species' tendency to produce a large quantity of honey for storage over the winter. Western honey bees are an important model organism in scientific studies, particularly in the fields of social evolution, learning and memory; they are also used in studies of pesticide toxicity, to assess non-target impacts of commercial pesticides.