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insect-pollinated flowering plants. Some species including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees live socially in colonies. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar
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Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees including honey bees is known as melittology. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee". Although modern dictionaries
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Botany (redirect from Study of plants)
organisms of which some 260,000 species are vascular plants and about 248,000 are flowering plants. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the
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For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation). Plants, also called green plants, are multicellular eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. They form an unranked
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Bumblebee (redirect from Bumble Bee)
(Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower. From experiments which I have tried, I have found that the visits of bees, if not indispensable
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"Killer bee" redirects here. For other uses, see Killer bees (disambiguation). Africanized honey bees (also spelled Africanised honey bees), known colloquially
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Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 500 species), comprising the tribe Meliponini
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insects, like wasps, bees, butterflies and ants, pollinate flowering plants. Pollination is a mutualistic relationship between plants and insects. As insects
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For other uses, see Ant (disambiguation). Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the
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Epacris impressa (category Plants described in 1805)
visiting white-flowered plants include the Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) and yellow admiral (V. itea), as well as bees. Field work in southern
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Verbascum thapsus (category Introduced plants of North America)
of the parent plant, and 93% fall within 5 m. Megachilid bees of the genus Anthidium use the hair (amongst that of various woolly plants) in making their
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to that type of flower for most of the day, unless the plants stop producing reward or weather conditions change. Honey bees are quite adept at associative
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Fruit tree pollination (category Plants and pollinators)
locations because they do not sting. Some wild bees such as carpenter bees and other solitary bees may help. Bumble bee queens are sometimes present in orchards
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Wasp (section As models for mimics)
a bee nor an ant. This means that wasps are paraphyletic with respect to bees and ants, and that all three groups are descended from a common ancestor;
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Apple (category Plants described in 1803)
growers often utilize pollinators to carry pollen. Honey bees are most commonly used. Orchard mason bees are also used as supplemental pollinators in commercial
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Beekeeping (redirect from Bee-keeping)
domesticated a separate species of stingless bee. The use of stingless bees is referred to as meliponiculture, named after bees of the tribe Meliponini—such as Melipona
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Pollination (redirect from Plant fertilization)
whether it be bees, flies, bats, moths, or birds; a pollenizer is the plant that serves as the pollen source for other plants. Some plants are self-compatible
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Banksia verticillata (category Plants and pollinators)
prominent pollinator, although several other species of honeyeater, as well as bees, visit the flower spikes. A declared vulnerable species, it occurs in two
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Cucurbita (redirect from Squash (plant))
species are visited by specialist bee pollinators, but other insects with more general feeding habits, such as honey bees, also visit. The fruits of the
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Perovskia atriplicifolia (category Drought-tolerant plants)
is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant and subshrub. Although not a member of Salvia, the genus of other plants commonly called sage, it is closely
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