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  2. Beehive - Wikipedia

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    Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure where some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.

  3. Tetragonula carbonaria - Wikipedia

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    The bee produces an edible honey; the whole nest is sometimes eaten by Indigenous Australians. [8] The bees " mummify " invasive small hive beetles ( Aethina tumida ) that enter the nest by coating and immobilising the invaders in wax , resin , and mud or soil from the nest.

  4. Honeycomb - Wikipedia

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    Honey bees consume about 8.4 lb (3.8 kg) of honey to secrete 1 lb (450 g) of wax, [1] and so beekeepers may return the wax to the hive after harvesting the honey to improve honey outputs. The structure of the comb may be left basically intact when honey is extracted from it by uncapping and spinning in a centrifugal honey extractor .

  5. Carpenter bee - Wikipedia

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    Solitary bees tend to be gregarious and often several nests of solitary bees are near each other. In solitary nesting, the founding bee forages, builds cells, lays the eggs, and guards. Normally, only one generation of bees live in the nest. [9] Xylocopa pubescens is one carpenter bee species that can have both social and solitary nests. [9]

  6. Apis dorsata - Wikipedia

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    A nest of A. dorsata, consisting of a single exposed hanging comb: The bottom of the comb has a number of unoccupied hexagonal cells. Apis dorsata differs from the other bees in its genus in terms of nest design. Each colony consists of a single vertical comb made of workers' wax suspended from above, and the comb is typically covered by a ...

  7. Macropis nuda - Wikipedia

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    The common name of this cleptoparasite refers to how this species of bee invades a host nest and lays its eggs in a host cell. Macropis cuckoo bee larvae make cocoons and hibernate similarly to M. nuda. The parasitic bee larvae will consume provisions stored for the M. nuda larva. The parasitic bee is most active during the hottest hours of the ...

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  9. Leioproctus boltoni - Wikipedia

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    Leioproctus boltoni is a species of bee in the family of plasterer bees. [2] This species was first described in 1904 and is endemic to New Zealand. They are a solitary bee, small and black in appearance. L. boltoni can be found throughout the main islands of New Zealand and forages on the flowers of both native and introduced species of plants ...