After returning from her mating flight, the queen bee has only one task: lay eggs. Up to two thousand a day at the height of summer.
The drones (males) do no work in the hive. They only live for one thing: to mate with a virgin queen, and they will fly out in good weather to look out for any virgin queen. In the autumn they will be thrown out of the hive by the workers and will die.
The worker bees undertake a number of tasks according to their age:
* Days 1 to 3: Cell cleaning and brood incubation. * Days 4 to 6: Feeding older larvae with a mixture of honey and pollen (called 'bee bread'). * Days 7 to 12: Feeding young larvae with royal jelly. This is produced from the hypopharyngeal gland in the bee's head. All larvae are fed with royal jelly for about three days; queen larvae are fed exclusively on royal jelly. * Days 13 to 18: Processing nectar into honey by fanning it with their wings to evaporate water; wax making; packing pollen into cells. * Days 19 to 21: Guarding the hive entrance and taking orientation flights. * Day 21 on for the rest of its life: Foraging for nectar, pollen, water and propolis. Other duties include ventilation, humidity and temperature control of the hive. Bees can also revert to earlier duties if required. Their duties depend on the maturity of their brood glands, wax glands (from day 12) and sting gland (from day 18).
Bees are not always working, they often do nothing!
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There are three kinds of honeybees in the hive. Workers, drones and the queen. The queen is the heart of the tribe and responsible for laying eggs. Drones are the males who do no work except for mating with the queen to provide sperm to fertilize the eggs. Workers do everything else in the hive, from collecting pollen and making honey, to building the wax cells, to defending the hive from predators.
i think honey bees can be classified acording to their colour and size.
some honey bees have darkish yellow while some are light coloured.
some honey bees are big in size but there is a class of which they are very small like fly.
Apis, Megapis and Micrapis are the three kinds of honey bees.
Specifically, the above-mentioned names are each of three subgenuses into which the honey bee (Apisspp) can be categorized scientifically. The Apis genus -- which was imoprted by North American-settling Europeans in the seventeenth century -- is thought to originate in eastern Africa and tropical Asia. The Megapis genus is native to south and southeast Asia, where they nest in combs atop buildings, cliffs and trees. The Micrapis genus represents small bees that are native to south and southeast Asia, where they nest in shrubs and trees.
In a hive there is one queen, who lays all the eggs; between 20,000 and 60,000 workers, who are all infertile females; and about 200 drones (males).
The three types, or castes, of bees are queen, worker and drone. The drones are the males, and the workers and queen are females but only the queen lays eggs.
Worker, Queen and Drone.
honeybees is one of the three
Queen, drones, workers.
Honey bees
rattlesnake bees
There are some kind of honey produced by bees, according to the kind of flower they get their stock, but basically honey has the same molecular structure with some variations.
honey bees eat no insects but do eat nectar
Honey.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera, meaning 'honey carrier', and three other related species). Not all bees, just honey bees. ^^
Beekeepers
Honey bees (European originally), although Killer bees will take over a hive.
Hive
These bees are bumblebees.
honey hence the name honey bees Honey bees also produce bees wax by converting honey.
Almost all common bees will do that, honey, bumble or carpenter