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Gallery: Zach's Bee Photos [(c) Zachary Huang], for Prints 
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| Album: Bees Foraging Honey bees foraging for nectar or pollen on flowers, or other materials. Changed: Jan 06, 2008. Contains: 92 items. Viewed: 32838 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Bees on Roses All flowers here are cultivated roses (Rosa spp, Rosaceae). All photos were taken in the Beijing Botanic Garden, March 2002. Changed: Nov 08, 2007. Contains: 9 items. Viewed: 6748 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Bees on Peonies All flowers here are cultivated peonies or tree peonies (Ponia spp, Paeoniaceae). All photos were taken in the Beijing Botanic Garden, March 2002. Changed: Nov 08, 2007. Contains: 9 items. Viewed: 5902 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Asian Bees (A. cerana) Apis cerana is the sister species of our bees (A. mellifera). It is the original host of the varroa mites (Varroa jacobsoni, Varroa destructor). Bees are generally smaller and with more striking bands on the abdomen compared to our bees. Most photoes taken in China, some in Thailand. Changed: Nov 08, 2007. Contains: 24 items. Viewed: 11421 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Giant Bees (A. dorsata) Giant honey bees (Apis dorsata, Apis laboriosa) occur only in Asia (China, India, Malasia, Nepal, Thailand). They nest in tall trees or under rocks with a single piece of comb. Bees can forage at night with strong moonlight. Changed: Nov 08, 2007. Contains: 15 items. Viewed: 13646 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Dwarf Bees Dwarf honey bees include Apis florea and Apis andreniformis. Both are about 1/4 of European honey bees and nest in the open with a single comb (about 1-1.5 ft long). Florea has the more reddish color while andreniformis is totally black in the abdomen when old. The two are so similar that they were considered to be one species until a few years ago. Changed: Nov 08, 2007. Contains: 4 items. Viewed: 5432 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Stingless Bees Changed: Apr 07, 2005. Contains: 3 items. Viewed: 5098 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Bumble Bees Bumble bees (Bombus spp, Apidae) are in the same family as honey bees but have an annual cycle. Queens forage in the spring time, but once the first batch of workers emerge, she stays home to be full time mom. Workers are smaller and also sterile like honey bee workers. In the fall, the new queens mate, survive the winter and begine the cycle again next year. Changed: Jan 06, 2008. Contains: 21 items. Viewed: 18359 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Wasps + bees Wasps and other bees that people often confuse with honey bees. Changed: Jan 06, 2008. Contains: 38 items. Viewed: 38448 times. | ||||||||
| Album: Bee-like Flies Commonly called bee flies, flower flies, . These are syrphid flies in the family Syrphidae and often mimic honey bees or other bees. If you look closely, they have one pair of wings (instead of two) and very short antenna. They can also hover (hence also called hover flies) and fly backwards! Changed: Jan 06, 2008. Contains: 7 items. Viewed: 5970 times. | ||||||||
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