The above wiki entry about BEES is as disturbing as the BEEHIVE entry, as I began to skim through it quickly...I have never ever seen a BEE that looked like BLUEBOTTLE FLY before...yes, you can see it is a bee by what it is doing but the 'colour' is 'all wrong'...
...and I can remember BI picking that photo out in particular...because it looked more like a BANANA BEETLE colour, let us say...that metallic BLUE/GREEN than your typical 'bee'...
Osmia ribifloris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Apoidea
(unranked): Anthophila
OZMA programming - one of the WIZARD OF OZ books...where you have a queen who has 'so many different heads'....OSMIA...OZMA...we were taught to have 'so many different moods/emotions' in relation to 'different heads' that you could put on...a POWERGEN 'drama class'...
Anyway, this sounds particularly nasty:
"One small subgroup of stingless bees, called "vulture bees," is specialized to feed on carrion, and these are the only bees that do not use plant products as food."
...and so does this...I mean, i was programmed as a BEE:
"Many assassin bugs and crab spiders hide in flowers to capture unwary bees."
"A honey bee queen may lay 2000 eggs per day during spring buildup, but she also must lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day during the foraging season, mostly to replace daily casualties, most of which are workers dying of old age."
"Apart from colony collapse disorder, many of the losses outside the US have also been attributed to other causes. Pesticides used to treat seeds, such as Clothianidin and Imidacloprid, have been considered prime suspects.[11] Other species of bees such as mason bees are increasingly cultured and used to meet the agricultural pollination need.[12]"
"Native pollinators include bumblebees and solitary bees, which often survive in refuges in wild areas away from agricultural spraying, but may still be poisoned in massive spray programs for mosquitoes, gypsy moths, or other insect pests."
The GYPSY MOTH...as sailed by that 'famous explorer'...
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