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 race and are not defined as subspecies in their own right) The known sub-species within the lineage 'A' are: The known sub-species within the lineage 'C' are: The known sub-species within the lineage 'M' are: The known sub-species within the lineage 'O' are: The known sub-species within the lineage 'Y') are: Honey bee race Within biological taxonomy, a Honey bee race would be an informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy, below the level of subspecies. It has been used as a higher rank than strain, with several strains making up one race. Therefore a strain (within the Honey bee context) is