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honey bee

  • a variation of honeybee.
    honeybee
    noun
    any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.

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You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

The findings have important implications for beekeepers and for agricultural systems that rely on honey bee pollination.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

The study, titled "Negative Effects of Excessive Heat on Colony Thermoregulation and Population Dynamics in Honey Bees," followed nine honey bee colonies during a particularly hot summer in Arizona.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2026

From Québec to British Columbia, honey bee colonies were given the job of pollinating some of Canada's most valuable crops -- apples, canola oil and seed, highbush and lowbush blueberry, soybean, cranberry and corn.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2024

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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