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1. bees

   Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila. There are over 16,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families. Some species – including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees – live socially in colonies while most species (>90%) – including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees – are solitary. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. The most common bees in the Northern Hemisphere are the Halictidae, or sweat bees, but they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies. Bees range in size from tiny stingless bee species, whose workers are less than 2 millimetres (0.08 in) long, to Megachile pluto, the largest species of leafcutter bee, whose females can attain a length of 39 millimetres (1.54 in). Bees feed on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for their larvae. Vertebrate predators of bees include primates and birds such as bee-eaters; insect predators include beewolves and dragonflies. Bee pollination is important both ecologically and commercially, and the decline in wild bees has increased the value of pollination by commercially managed hives of honey bees. The analysis of 353 wild bee and hoverfly species across Britain from 1980 to 2013 found the insects have been lost from a quarter of the places they inhabited in 1980.Human beekeeping or apiculture (meliponiculture for stingless bees) has been practised for millennia, since at least the times of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. Bees have appeared in mythology and folklore, through all phases of art and literature from ancient times to the present day, although primarily focused in the Northern Hemisphere where beekeeping is far more common. In Mesoamerica, the Mayans have practiced large-scale intensive meliponiculture since pre-Columbian times.

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1. Bees

   Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. About 3500 species occur in North America. They differ from most WASPS in that their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food.

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1. bees

   Plural of bee.

   There is one bee on the window and a number of bees sitting on the flower petal.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on November 23, 2015  

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1. BEES

   What does BEES stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BEES acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. BEES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bees is ranked #48060 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bees surname appeared 440 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bees.
   
   94.3% or 415 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
   1.1% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for bees »

1. BSEE

2. SEbE

How to pronounce bees?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bees in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bees in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bees in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bees in a Sentence

1. French Proverb:

   Honey is sweet but bees sting.

2. Otto Frank:

   According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.” You've bee gnomed

3. Ashley Ralph:

   Erika's approach has a place in bringing in new eyes and ears that could become bee advocates or even beekeepers, at TBA, we do spend time talking about protective gear and the risk of beekeeping because we worry that without talking about the risk of bees, we could actually be causing more harm to honey bees and beekeepers in the long run by encouraging irresponsible or even hands-off beekeeping practices that lead to bad bees or bee experiences.

4. Mica Endsley:

   It is built on the biological concept of say a swarm of bees, for example, where you can see a lot of them fly as a group but they do not run into each other. They manage some type of coordinated activity between them in order to be able to navigate successfully.

5. Barry Stockwell:

   Ten years ago, when performing our annual gingerbread display cleaning, we noticed bees were very attracted to the sugar on the displays after deconstruction, we decided to bring the display pieces to our Disney tree farm and lay them out in our field to give the bees a chance to collect the sugar on the wooden structures.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html