Bees and Wasps Wasps and bees both belong to the order "Hymenoptera" and have many features in common. We know that bees have been producing honey as they do today for at least 150 million years. Bees produce honey as food stores for the hive during the long months of winter when flowers aren't blooming and therefore little or no nectar is available to them. European honeybees produce such an abundance of honey, far more than …showed first 75 words of 405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 405 total…bee to die. A wasp can sting multiple times by withdrawing their stinger in a hypodermic needle style. Bees and wasps venom is similar; they are both a component of protein that causes an allergic reaction that causes pain. Unlike bees wasps have more than one queen but have about 5 times as many worker wasps than queen wasps. A wasp's primary food source is composed of insects and dead carcasses of small animals and reptiles.