Honeybee

The honeybee is a bug in the. It first appeared in and has appeared in all subsequent games. It can be found flying near flowers during spring and summer.

In
The honeybee can be found at the middle-left side of the first room of the bugs section, on the flowers.

In
It can be found in the lower-left section of the exhibit, buzzing among the roses.

In
Upon being donated, the honeybee can be found in the first room of the bug exhibit flying around and resting on the bushes near the back of the room. The exhibit has this to say about the honeybee:

In
The honeybee can be found on the tropical flower bed near the man-faced stink bug and the mantis.

Real-world information
Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is a species of honeybee that is used frequently around the world to produce honey. There are many subspecies of this bee due to human intervention. This breed of honeybee originated from Africa. Like the in-game wasp and most species of bee, the European honeybee is capable of delivering a venomous sting, though this does not occur in-game. Unlike these other species, the European honeybee's stinger is barbed, causing the bee to fatally disembowel itself when the stinger is caught in the target's skin, leaving behind a sac that continues to envenomate the target until the stinger is removed. Despite being omnivorous, the European honeybee preys on microbes rather than other insects; consequently, stinging is used exclusively to protect against perceived threats.

The European honeybee has been subject to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an unexplained phenomenon in which all worker bees leave their colony and die, leaving the hive without any means of supporting itself.