#superfamily_Apoidea__Apoidea bees
supertype: arthropod_family__arthropodfamily any of the arthropods
member of: order_Hymenoptera
member: bee any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
member: queen_bee__queenbee fertile egg-laying female bee
member: worker_bee sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive
member: family_Apidae__Apidae honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
member: genus_Apis__Apis type genus of the Apidae: honeybees
member: honeybee__Apis_mellifera social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
member: genus_Xylocopa__Xylocopa carpenter bees
member: carpenter_bee__carpenterbee large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems
member: genus_Bombus__Bombus bumblebees
member: bumblebee__humblebee robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
member: genus_Psithyrus__Psithyrus a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste
member: cuckoo-bumblebee a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees
member: family_Andrenidae__Andrenidae a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground
member: genus_Andrena a solitary burrowing short-tongued bee
member: andrena__andrenid__mining_bee a bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena
member: family_Halictidae__Halictidae a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture
member: nomia__genusnomia a genus of bee; some are important pollinators of legumes
member: Nomia_melanderi__alkali_bee a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
member: family_Megachilidae__Megachilidae leaf-cutting and mason bees
member: genus_Megachile__Megachile type genus of the Megachilidae: leaf-cutting bees
member: leaf-cutting_bee__leaf-cutter__leaf-cutter_bee bee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest
member: mason_bee__masonbee any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand
member: genus_Anthidium__Anthidium potter bees
member: potter_bee solitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant
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