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The family Apidae includes more than 25,000 species of bees including honey bees, carpenter bees and bumblebees. They are valuable pollinators and prodigious workers.
This family includes social and solitary nesters. The social bees may have as many as 60,000 inhabitants. These colonies typically function with workers that do all the foraging, brood care, guarding, building and 1 or 2 queens that are responsible for the egg laying. The queen may live for several years, however the workers and males only survive for a few weeks or months.
Bees are holometabulous insects which means they go through complete metamorphosis. This includes egg, larval, pupal and adult stages. Fertilized eggs will develop into females and unfertilized eggs into males.
Bees are opportunisitic when it comes to their nests. Any type of protected niche may be used such as a holes in timber, walls, hollow trees, or fence material; or dying vegetation; or even ground burrows. They prefer these protected locations to survive predation by crab spiders, web-building spiders, wasps, bears, ants and insect-eating birds.
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