Honey Bees
Honey bees are light golden brown with brown banding. Their coloring may vary depending on the specific species, but they will always have light and dark color variations. Honey bees are covered in fine hair and have a barbed stinger coming off the back of their thorax. A barbed stinger means that these stinging insects can only sting once. Worker honey bees grow to between 1/2 and 5/8 of an inch in length. Queens can grow up to 3/4 of an inch in length.
Where are honey bees found?
Honey bees are social and create nests to live and work together. Outside, honey bees nest in trees, hollow logs, piles of rock, and other hollow places. It is also common for honey bees to get inside homes and other structures where they decide to stay and create an indoor nest. Inside Quad City structures, nests are found in attics, wall voids, crawlspaces, and chimneys.
Honey bees are environmentally beneficial because they are responsible for pollinating a wide variety of plants, flowers, trees, and crops. Honey bees are not an overly aggressive stinging insect species and will generally only sting when they are being directly attacked. A nest should only be removed from your property by trained experts, and only if it is positioned too close to your home and the bees have become a nuisance and danger for you, your family, and your pets.
What do honey bees eat?
Honey bees feed on the nectar and pollen that they collect from flowers and other plants. It is often gardens and landscaping that produces their food sources, attracting honey bees to properties where they can become a nuisance.
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