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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered with pollen, pollinator on Mallow (Malva sp), Pagny-sur-meuse, Lorraine, France
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Sunflower close-up on a background of bright blue sky with bees (Apis mellifera), Valensole, Provence, France
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
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
© Bruno Cavignaux / Biosphoto
© Bruno Cavignaux / Biosphoto
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
© Georges Lopez / Biosphoto
© Georges Lopez / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on a rosehip flower, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) back to the hive, Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on flower, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden in Nancy, Lorraine, France
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Wild bee pollinating sunflower flowers, Bugey, France
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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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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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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.
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
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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Lavender (lavandin) Fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, Europe
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Lavender (lavandin) Fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, Europe
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Honey bee covered with pollen, Provence, France
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
Honey bee covered with pollen, Provence, France
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
Zucchini with female flower, Provence, France
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Honey bee into a female flower of courgette, Provence, France
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
© Philippe Giraud / Biosgarden / Biosphoto
Honey bee into a female flower of courgette, Provence, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
Honeybees flying on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
Honeybee flying on flowers Borage - Northern Vosges France
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Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) sur Lavande papillon (Lavandula
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) sur Lavande papillon (Lavandula stoechas)
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Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting pollen from flowers, Liguria, Italy
© Tonči Maletic / Biosphoto
© Tonči Maletic / Biosphoto
Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) collecting pollen from flowers, Liguria, Italy
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Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) pollinisateur sur fleur de Gaura de Lindheimer (Gaura lindheimeri), jJrdin des plantes de paris, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Abeille à miel (Apis mellifera) pollinisateur sur fleur de Gaura de Lindheimer (Gaura lindheimeri), jJrdin des plantes de paris, France
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Honey bee (Philanthus triangulum) capturing an European beewolf (Apis mellifera) on a Ball Thistle (Echinops sp), Paris, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Philanthus triangulum) capturing an European beewolf (Apis mellifera) on a Ball Thistle (Echinops sp), Paris, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a blackberry flower (Rubus sp), Pagny-sur-Meuse, Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a blackberry flower (Rubus 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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
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) pollinating a goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum) flower from the Himalayas, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum) flower from the Himalayas, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating meadow sage (Salvia
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating meadow sage (Salvia pratensis) in a flowering meadow, Slovenia
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating on a flower, Nancy School Museum (Corbin family), Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating on a flower, Nancy School Museum (Corbin family), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinator on flowers of Scots rose (Rosa spinosissima), Rosaceae of N Asia and coastal Europe
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinator on flowers of Scots rose (Rosa spinosissima), Rosaceae of N Asia and coastal Europe
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a Prunus Blanche douce flower (Prunus sp), Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating a Prunus Blanche douce flower (Prunus sp), Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) at the entrance of the hive, Belgium
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) at the entrance of the hive, Belgium
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Solanaceae flower from NE Argentina Bolivia, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollinating Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Solanaceae flower from NE Argentina Bolivia, Jean-Marie Pelt Botanical Garden (Nancy), Lorraine, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of the tongue seen under the
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of the tongue seen under the microscope
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of an antenna seen under the microscope
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
© Stéphane Vitzthum / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) detail of an antenna seen under the microscope
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Abeille domestique (Apis mellifera) sur ciste cotonneux, Mont Ventoux, Provence, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
Abeille domestique (Apis mellifera) sur ciste cotonneux, Mont Ventoux, Provence, France