honey bees

[Gill Catton]

I was wondering, is it only honey bees that make a store of honey? Or do other species of bee (bumble / masonry etc) do this too?

[GRH]

Bumblebees have a small amount of what could be called honey. Only enough to keep them going through a bad patch, not in the quantities that honeybees do to enable to colony to survive the winter (that's my understanding, anyway). The solitary bees have none, the adults feeding on nectar from flowers as they need it.

Greg