Honey Bee (Male) Small 320×210 Medium 640×419 Large 1024×671 Download Tiff Original 2400×1573 | (768.6 KB) Description Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Pictured here is a male honey bee. Keywords honey, honey bee, Insect, kbees, Male, nest, wax Galleries Other Orders of Insects Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed., vol. 3) (New York, NY: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, 1910)