Heather Angel / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) nectaring on freshly opened yellow Lantana (Lantana camara) flowers. Flowers turn pink when nectar no longer provided. In garden, Tanzania. Native to tropical Americas.

Sandesh Kadur / Swarm of Asiatic honey bees (Apis cerana) drinking water, Rathambore National Park, Rajasthan, India. 2016.

Sandesh Kadur / Small honey bee (Apis florea) feeding from Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) flower, Manas National Park, Kokrajhar, Assam, India

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Artifical beehive in hollow log, attached to outside of building, Modi Khola river valley, central Nepal November 2011.

Axel Gomille / Giant honey bee nest (Apis dorsata), Karnataka, India

Sandesh Kadur / Bee keeping in Coorg / Kodagu, now famous for its rich honey, Western Ghats, Karnataka, Southern India.

Peter Bassett / Camerman David Shale films honey bee colony wearing protective clothing, Naspur, India.

David Shale / Man climbs down rope to collect honey from cliff bees' nests, Landrung, Nepal

David Shale / Collecting honey from cliff bee nests. Landrung, Nepal

Mark Moffett / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) collecting nectar, Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

Mark Moffett / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) collecting nectar from the flowers of a wild Cinnamon tree (Neolitsea cassia) note full pollen baskets, Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka

Vishal Jadhav / Giant honey bee (Apis dorsata) worker collecting nectar from Sulfer cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus) flower before taking flight and leaving frame, late monsoon, Pune, India. September.