A little about Honey Bees
A honey bee is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all belonging to Eurasia. They are known for their building of perennial colonial nests from wax, the large size of their colonies, and surplus manufacturing as well as storage of honey.
Types of Bees
There are a number of different types of bees but here we discuss two different and important groups: social and solitary bees. Various other insects like hoverflies, hornet moths, and also clearwing moths, resemble the shades so they do not get eaten.
Social Bees
As their name suggests, social bees stay in groups. Honeybees are especially sociable as well as can reside in groups of approximately 50,000 with each other in a solitary hive.
Bumblebees are also social, yet reside in smaller groups of 50-150. Both kinds depend upon queen bees that lay all of the eggs for the group. Social bees are a common view in our gardens.
Common carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
The Common carder bee is a fluffy, gingery bumble that can usually be located in gardens and forests, and on farmland and heaths. It is a social bee, nesting in cavities of trees, old birds’ nests, and also mossy gardens.
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
The black-and-gold Honey Bee is well-known as a hive bee: semi-domesticated for hundreds of years to produce honey for human usage. It is likewise an essential pollinator of flowers as well as plants.
Solitary bees
In contrast, solitary bees survive on their own. They can make burrows underground, or live-in quarry faces, old wood, and also even stonework and masonry. A female solitary bee builds her nest as well as offers food for her young without the help of any worker bees.
Regardless of this, some solitary bees may appear to reside in colonies, with numerous making their nests near each other in an appropriate piece of habitat. There are over 250 types of solitary bees.
Types of Solitary Bees
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
The Red Mason is a common, gingery bee that can be seen nesting in the crumbling mortar of old walls. Encourage bees to nest in your garden by putting a tin can full of short, hollow canes.
Tawny Mining Bee(Andrena fulva)
The Tawny mining is a furry, gingery bee that can typically be seen in parks and also gardens during the spring. Look to find a volcano-like pile of earth in the grass that marks the entry to its burrow.
Hairy-footed FlowerBee (Anthophora plumipes)
The hairy-footed flower bee can be seen in gardens and parks in spring and also summertime, going to tubular flowers like red dead-nettle and comfrey. As its name suggests, it has long, orange hairs on its center legs.