Bee insect bees 23. See more ideas about bees garden insects and honey bees. Bees have mouth parts that are designed to suck up and drink liquid food. Not only is pollen a food source for bees but also some of the pollen is dropped in flight resulting in cross pollination. Bee superfamily apoidea any of more than 20000 species of insects in the suborder apocrita order hymenoptera including the familiar honeybee apis and bumblebee bombus and psithyrus as well as thousands more wasplike and flylike bees.
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants known for their role in pollination and in the case of the best known bee species the western honey bee for producing honey and beeswax. One of the major differences between bugs and bees is the structure of their mouth parts. Teachers and students alike can find additional bee facts and information on bee pest control at the official npma website. Adults range in size from about 2 mm to 4 cm about 00816 inches.
No actually bees are not true bugs. Sadly over the past 15 years the global population of the industrious insects has been declining at alarming rates. We may often hear honey bees called bugs. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily apoidea and are presently considered a clade called anthophila.
Insects that are true bugs belong to the order hemiptera.