Western honey bee and Africa", making conservation of wild-bee diversity important. They further argue that the difficulty of controlling drones for mating is a serious handicap and a sign that domestication is not complete, in particular as "extensive gene flow usually occurs between wild/feral and managed honeybee populations". The honey bee is a colonial insect which is housed, transported by and sometimes fed by beekeepers. Honey bees do not survive and reproduce individually, but as part of the colony (a superorganism). Honey bees collect flower nectar and convert it to honey, which is stored in the hive. The nectar, transported in the bees'
Honey bee single or a few exposed combs on high tree limbs, on cliffs, and sometimes on buildings. They can be very fierce. Periodically robbed of their honey by human "honey hunters", colonies are easily capable of stinging a human being to death if provoked. Eastern "Apis" species include three or four species, including "A. koschevnikovi", "Apis nigrocincta", and "A. cerana". The genetics of the western honey bee "A. mellifera" are unclear. The Koschevnikov's bee ("Apis koschevnikovi") is often referred to in the literature as the “red bee of Sabah;” however "A. koschevnikovi" is pale reddish in Sabah State, Borneo, Malaysia, but