Honeybees in the Honeycomb

Description

The combs are built by worker bees with the wax produced in their glands and have alveoli where they store honey and pollen. According to the United Nations (UN), pollinators such as bees support the production of 87 of the 115 leading food crops, that is, the plants that we eat. In 1956, researchers in Brazil crossed European honeybees with an African subspecies; the hybrids escaped, spread through the Americas and are now the most common honeybee from northern Argentina to the southern United States.