MeSH

A sweet viscous liquid food, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from nectar collected from flowers. The nectar is ripened into honey by inversion of its sucrose sugar into fructose and glucose. It is somewhat acidic and has mild antiseptic properties, being sometimes used in the treatment of burns and lacerations.

Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. About 3500 species occur in North America. They differ from most WASPS in that their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food.

a vertebrate-like non-visual opsin expressed in the honey bee brain; RefSeq mRNA Sequence NM_001039968; Source Sequence BK005510; Product NP_001035057

Date introduced: April 26, 2006