Meet the bees!
Bees are an everyday part of our lives: we remember cute cartoon characters we enjoyed as kids, we watch them do their job in our gardens, and surely every one of us reading this blog has at least one jar of honey in the pantry... but, how well do we know them? True bees (Apinae) are a subfamily of insects from the order of aphids, a family of bees (Apidae) to which the closest relatives are bumblebees. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees in the world that live on all continents except Antarctica. The most common species is the honey bee (apis mellifera); it originated in Africa from where it settled in Mediterranean countries and Europe, and later spread to Asia, Australia and North America.
~ M.K.