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 and starves emerging bees. Destruction of honeycombs also result in honey leaking and being wasted. Both "G. mellonella" adults and larvae are possible vectors for pathogens that can infect bees, including the Israeli acute paralysis virus and the black queen cell virus. Temperature treatments are possible, but also distorts wax of the honeycombs. Chemical fumigants, particularly CO, are also used. The only domesticated species of honey bee are "A. mellifera" and "A. cerana", and they are often maintained, fed, and transported by beekeepers. In Japan, where "mellifera" is vulnerable to local hornets and disease, the Japanese honey bee "a. cerana