Do wild bees make honey?

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Honey is a rot-resistant food reserve for bees living in colonies, kept to last throughout winter.  There are, therefore, two remarkable aspects about the production of honey: life of the group of a whole, and the sustainability of the species (lifespan of more than a year).
 
The only eusocial (truly social) species are honeybees and bumblebees (approximately 50 species).  Almost all the other species of bee (about 950) are solitary.  Moreover, contrary to honey bees (Apis mellifera), bumblebees (bombus spp.) do not spend winter in colonies (except for one species on the Porquerolles islands of France).  As with wasps, only the future queens live sheltered through winter, waiting for spring to give birth to a new colony, bound to only living for one year.