This is a worker honey bee collecting pollen and nectar from the flowers. The orange pouch on it’s leg is the pouch that is used to carry the pollen and nectar. Source from Bob Peterson, Flickr.
There are 7 species of honey bees that are recognized and this branches out to a total of 44 subspecies. The center origin of most of the honey bees are in the South and Southeast Asia even though it is a common belief that they are native of Europe, where there is only one species that is native. Honey bees can be primarily distinguished by the production and storage of the honey and also the construction of their nests. They collect pollen and nectar using a pouch on their legs, and visiting up to 1000 flowers per trip. Honey bees live in hives of up to 50,000 to 60,000 bees with a queen and her daughters, which are also worker bees, living in the hive all year with a live span of about three to four years.
An insight to the eggs and larvae that can be found inside the comb of the dwarf honey bees. Source from Vipin Baliga, Flickr.
Honey bees utilizes plants by boring holes in the plant stems or wood or by nesting in galleries in trees or preexisting cavities, especially in tree hollows. They then use a waxy material that they produced by themselves to line their nest cells to create hexagonal cells which are used to store honey or eggs and larvae.
Here is a short video to introduce more about the honey bees.