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Common honey bee

Apis mellifera

Photo by Maria dB
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Field Notes

Description:

Honey bees refine and concentrate nectar to make honey so they will have food when flower nectar is unavailable. They remain active throughout the winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death.

Habitat:

On purple deadnettle plants.

Reference Links:

Western honey bee

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