Honey Bee

The anthophila, also known as a honey bee is black and gold, have 6 legs and can grow from 5-15mm in length. They are herbivores, and are about the size of a paper clip. Honey bees share their environment with butterflies, beetles and many other insects. The relationship they have to flowers and plants is mutualism. The flowers need to be pollinated to grow fruit, and the bees later use that polin to make honey. The honeybee is designed to be able to fly, which allows it to land on a flower, and a stinger to protect them in desperate times. Honeybees reproduce sexually, but an interesting fact is that the male bee dies shortly after the process, because they leave their endophallus in the female's body, fatally injuring themselves. The female later lays the eggs in the comb, where the egg hatches into larva, then later a honeybee.