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 a dark, coppery color in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera, Indonesia. It's habitat is limited to the tropical evergreen forests of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra, and they do not live in tropical evergreen rain forests which extend into Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Apis nigrocincta is a cavity-nesting species. The species has rust-colored scapes, legs, and cylpeuses, with reddish-tan hair color that covers most of the body. "Apis cerana", the eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia. It was domesticated as subspecies "A. c. indica" and kept in hives in a