The honey bee, also known as Apis Mellifera, is very common in the natural world and easily noticeable outside on a warm sunny day. Honey bees have always been a very important yet, unique gift from nature to the gardening community as well as the scientific community. These precious insects have proven to benefit us and our plants in many different ways. Not only do Bees hThe ave the ability to make a delicious snack, but they also have the ability to pollinate the plants they use. Also, thanks to Bees and a complex process they have, we can enjoy the delicious golden nectar known as honey at any given moment in our day. However, Bees can benefit the gardening community and the scientific community in more ways than pollination or simply producing something sweet. These flying insects contain information that could be of extreme benefit to people. Scientists should study honey bees further in order to obtain more information as to how bees could benefit not just the gardening environment, but the scientific environment as well. 

For around millions and millions of years, bees have been living and contributing to their environment consistently. However, before we get into how bees have been benefiting us, it is crucial to learn about the honey bee and how it functions. To begin with, honey Bees, otherwise known as Apis Mellifera, is an arthropod insect which signifies that this insects’ skeleton is on the outside such as an exoskeleton. The insect family that bees reside in is known as the Hymenoptera family which includes insects such as ants, wasps, and wouldn’t you know it, Bees. Typically, honey bees live in hives and those can either be something like an external hive or they can create hives within dead trees or empty large spaces. Within one of these hives, one could find something close to 80,000 honey bees living and working with one another.  Additionally, when speaking about honey bees one must keep in mind that honey bees have different classifications. To be more exact, within the honey bee family, there are worker bees, drone bees, and ultimately the Queen Bee. Also, each category of bee has its own independent function which contributes to their own environment. In summary, Bees are Flying Insects with different kinds of classifications as well as different kinds of functions which will be explored further as we move forward.  

The sweet, delicious nectar known as Honey, pure Honey, is produced by the astounding flying insect known as the Honey Bee. However, this sweet golden nectar is no quick and easy process for the little Honey Bees. In order for these bees to be able to create this sweet golden nectar, the worker honey bees must be able to fly their way to the plants in nature in order to retrieve the nectar from the plants. Once completed, they return to their hive where the drone honey bees will begin to work tirelessly. These drone honey bees must be able to break down the nectar collected from the plants into sugars and in the process, creating honey. Also, pure honey has been proven to be very versatile in usage within the garden as well as the kitchen. This honey can have a great variety of uses such as being used as a sweetener for smoothies or in teas, in the kitchen, or as a fertilizer, a slug trap, or even an ant killer.  Aside from honey bees being able to create delicious and versatile honey, honey bees can also pollinate the environment. To be more specific, honey bees have the ability to pollinate the plants in nature due to the fact that they have hairs on their exoskeleton and because they can fly as well. Each time that one of these honey bees lands on a plant to collect its’ nectar, the pollen from the plants sticks to the hairs on the bee. While the bee is in flight back to the hive, the pollen stuck on the hairs falls to the other plants resulting in pollination. Thanks to the honey bees plants can thrive and sprout in even larger quantities that benefit gardeners, researchers, and even the honey bees themselves. To sum up, honey bees benefit the gardening community as well as the scientific research community, thanks to some of their feats such as producing honey or pollinating their environment, continuing we will discuss why it is important to dedicate more attention to honey bees.  

Scientists must begin to dedicate more time to researching and studying the paramount insect known as the honey bee. This flying insect can provide many more advantages than simply producing honey and pollination. First, there have been studies conducted on honey bee venom which has resulted in astonishing results. To give more detail, scientists have analyzed what makes up honey bee venom and have found that, the makeup of honey bee venom may be used to fight human diseases. According to, August Easton-Calabria, Kristian C. Demary, Nola J. Oner (2019), the makeup of honey bee venom can could possibly demonstrate a new component of social immunity. This goes to show that honey bees hold more potential than making honey if studied further. Honey bees have the information necessary to help develop a resistance to the myriad of diseases that can be found in the world. Another possible benefit of researching honey bees further is shown within the medicinal benefits that come from honey. To specify, the honey that comes from New Zealand known as Manuka honey has been proven to have medicinal uses. Scientists have found that Manuka honey, contains the high activity of antibacterials, as stated by the article Beyond Pollination: Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) as Zootherapy Keystone Species (2019). It is due to the strong antibacterial component of this honey that some people even use it to treat their own wounds. This serves as more evidence as to how honey bees can benefit, not just the gardening community, but the scientific community as well. If scientists further their research on honey bees then they have the possibility of developing new kinds of treatments and medications as well. As a result, honey bees can benefit gardeners and scientists through the honey they produce as well as the venom that is found within honey bees.    

To conclude, honey bees should be studied more due to the fact that these flying insects can benefit the gardening environment, but scientific research as well. To be more detailed, honey bees help benefit the gardening community by pollinating the plants, and with the many different uses of their honey. They benefit the scientific research community with the makeup of their honey due to its high antibacterial levels as well as the makeup of the venom found in honey bees. The honey bee has proven to be beneficial to humanity and will benefit humanity even more if scientists study them further.