Anything between 10,000 and 80,000 depending on the time of year and type of hive.
Bee's range into qite a large population, but in one bee hive they are know to have at least about 500-1,500 bee's in one hive.
A Bee hive, or Bees nest.
Honey bees live in a nest, often called a 'hive.' One hive can hold up to 80,000 bees, most of them workers. It is often located in a hollow tree. The hive is made of honeycomb, which are tightly packed hexagonal cells made of beeswax. They use the hive to store food and house their young.
Beekeepers keep bees in a hive and more than one hive is known as an apiary.
Under normal circumstances, there will only be one queen bee per colony.
Some of the dangers involved with bee removal can be: damaging the hive, swarming of the bees during hive movement, and stings suffered from attacking bees. The latter being possibly more dangerous if one is allergic to bee stings.
The reason that they have a queen bee is that the queen is the only one that makes the baby bees in the entire bee hive.
The number of bees in a hive varies through the year. At the end of winter there will probably be around 10,000 bees, but in mid-summer there could be around 60,000 bees.
Under normal circumstances, only one.
In a beehive, only the drone bees are male and they are only produced in sumer. All the reset of the bees are female and all but one of these bees (called worker bees) are effectively sterile. The bee which is the mama of the hive, the one which lays all the eggs is called the "Queen" bee.
Bees in one hive typically do not communicate with bees from another since they usually will not allow bees from another hive to enter their own hive.
One funny bee joke that begins with a query goes: Why did the queen bee kick all of the worker bees out of her hive? Because they kept droning on and on!