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Leafcutter bee urinating in flight, Patchwork leaf-cutter bee (Megachile centuncularis) and Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea) on flower, Jardin des Plantes in front of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

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Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) under a flower, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) worker visiting Borage (Borago officinalis) flower, Bouches-du-Rhone, France

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Buckfast bee, Placing a virgin queen with workers and food for adoption in the hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, Open hive, Centre region, France

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Buckfast bee, A cupule is installed before the queen hatches. It is called "morel" because of its shape, Central region, France

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Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) pollinator on poppy (Papaver rhoeas) flower, France

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Cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus campestris (Psythirus) parasites of field bumblebees (Bombus pascuorum) on viperbugloss in forest, Bouxières-aux-dames, Lorraine, France

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Brown bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) on lamiaceae, Bouxières-aux-dames, Lorraine, France

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Brown bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) on lamiaceae, Bouxières-aux-dames, Lorraine, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France

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Amegilla bees (Amegilla sp), males at the "dormitory", Oukaimedem, High Atlas, Morocco.

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Sunflower close-up on a background of bright blue sky with bees (Apis mellifera), Valensole, Provence, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) in flight approaching a rapeseed flower, Alsace, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on a rosehip flower, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

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Goeldi's Monkey (Callimico goeldii) observing a brown bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) in a cage in the Menagerie Zoo of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France

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Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in flight over a garden flower in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) back to the hive, Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park, France

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on flower, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden in Nancy, Lorraine, France

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Brown Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) on Meadow Clary (Salvia pratensis) flower, France

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A carpenter bee (Apidae) aproaching a flower.

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Wild bee pollinating sunflower flowers, Bugey, France

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The pygmy canopy honey. On an enormous mahogany tree 50 metres high, the honey-hunter perched on the trunk passes a branch with dexterity. The pygmies are excellent climbers, athletes of the forest who accomplish feats every day in harvesting the honey. Likouala, Congo

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The Banas were beekeepers well before becoming farmers ten years ago. Ownership of the trees bearing the hives predates land ownership and it is passed down by inheritance. So, on the land of Oïta’s concession, there is a tree holding a hive but Oïta owns neither one nor the other and in no case can he cut this tree down without the hive owner’s permission. Karo people, Omo valley, Ethiopia

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Here, time stands still. This same phantasmagoric harvest spectacle was taking place 30,000 years ago, when the first honey hunters faced the savage swarms. Solukumbu, Nepal. The tiger men honey hunting

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To try to defend the colony from this incessant predation, the bees fight back by forming a cluster on the flight board. They thus save a few foraging bees returning after gathering nectar and pollen from the flowers. France

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Face-off between David and Goliath. The bee has no chance of defeating the formidable predator that is the Asian hornet Vespa velutina.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers produce an abundance of nectar. The nectar is secreted by the flowers to attract the insects who thus ensure the flowers' reproduction by transporting the pollen from the pistils to the stamens.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for the others bees. The males' cells are a third bigger. Their width is 8.75mm and their depth 16-17mm as opposed to 6mm and 12mm for the worker bees' cells.

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Apidologie - Bees in a flight tunnel. This procedure was used to show that the evaluation of distance by bees proceeds from their visual system. And through the white and black stripes, its has been shown that it also depends on the landscape's structure. This experiment was carried out by then calculating the length of the bees's dance in relation to the food source of which the distance was identified. /

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Apidologie - A bee in front of an odor gun. This technique allows for an association between an odor and a sugary reward. A sweet solution is applied to the antennas and the bee stretches out its proboscis, its little trunk. This odor-reflex association has brought to light the bees' capacity to remember odors and the time necessary to acquire olfactory memory. But also more complex learning: for example, an odor A is associated with a sugary solution and an odor B is not. Then, shortly after, it is reversed: the odor A is no longer associated with sugar but the odor B is. Result: the bee is capable of replacing the first signal by the new one. Centre for , FranceResearch, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and carries out 3 to 10 flights per day during 10 to 20 days of activity. A hive has between 100,000 and 200,000 foraging bees and thus harvests between 60 kilos and 300 kilos of honey per year.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning it, transform it into honey by lowering the moisture level from 80% to 17%. The buccal exchange between bees, the trophallaxis, plays a role in the making of the honey through the addition of enzymes.

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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Microchips are used by researchers to mark the bees and identify them with a scanner at the entrance to the hive or near the nurse bees. In that way, it is possible to monitor the bees' activities on an individual level. The times they go out, etc… Research Center HOBOS, Würzburg, Germany.

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Swarm of bees, bees gather in clusters around the queen, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

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Lavender (lavandin) Fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, Europe

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Honey bee covered with pollen, Provence, France

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Zucchini with female flower, Provence, France

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Honey bee into a female flower of courgette, Provence, France

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Digger Bee (Amegilla albegina) grooming on a twig - Ardeche France

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Honeybee on Meadow Clary - Northern Vosges

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Honeybees flying on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France

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Honeybee flying on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France

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Honeybee on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France

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Bee Queen Faux Bumblebee mating on flower

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Brown Bumblebee on a volubilis flower in summer France

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Bumblebee on a flower meadow of bluebells France

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Eucera pair, France