Bees pollinate flowers and hence all mankind’s crops (melons, marrows, courgettes, strawberries, raspberries, black currants, red currants, apple trees, plum trees, cherry trees, apricot trees, kiwis, sunflower, rapeseed, alfalfa, peas, mustard etc.).
They gather pollen by way of their pollen baskets (corbicula).
The harvesting of nectars which, transformed by the bees, become different honeys.
Harvested tree resin, which the bees cleverly mix with the pollen, wax and their saliva and will produce propolis.
Royal jelly is secreted from their saliva glands and the hypopharynx.
Wax is secreted from glands in their abdominal segments.
The secretion of venom.