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bees live in colonies or groups. each colony has a queen bee and a drone bee and many worker bees. the queen bee lays eggs with the help of drone bee and the worker bees look after them.
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Why honey bees are called social insects?
Because they live in colonies of around 50,000 bees. You have to be sociable when you have so many neighbours!
Can bees be pets?
No. Bees are wild creatures even if they are kept in a hive by a beekeeper. They are also social insects and live in a colony with lots of other bees.
What are social insects?
Insects that live, work and coexist with each other. Such insects include ants, bees, hornets, wasps, termites, etc.
Why are bees classified as 'social insects'?
Honey bees are 'social' insects because they live in 'societies' or colonies of many thousands of individuals, where each member of the colony performs different tasks for the greater good of the colony as a whole. Honey bees would be unable to survive without the rest of the colony. This is not true of all bees, some bumble bees live a less social life, living alone, or in very small groups.
Do bees have fingers?
Bees are insects. No insects have fingers in the sense that humans do.
Why are honeybees called social insects?
Honeybees are called social insects because all the bees in the community have to work together to be able to survive.
Insects that live in colonies and have special jobs are called what?
These are social insects - such as ants, termites and bees.
Why honey bees are called social insects?
Because they live in colonies of around 50,000 bees. You have to be sociable when you have so many neighbours!
Responses of insects such as the social behavior of bees are controlled by what?
Pheremones.
A group of social insects?
You need to elaborate more with your question. A group of social insects are when they live together...An example are honey bees.
Do honey bees have backbones?
No, bees are insects, and all insects are invertebrates. They have a hard outer casing called an exoskeleton.
Why are honey bees called social?
Honey bees, like ants and termintes, are social insects. That means they live in large colonies where members of the colony share tasks. They usually have only one female -- the queen -- who lays the eggs, and the other females are infertile. Within a social colony, individual members cannot survive for any length of time without the colony. Non-social insects are called solitary, and live alone. Most insects are solitary.
What insects is known as a social insect?
bees and ants are the most common
What are some social insects?
Social insects include ants, termites, bees, and wasps.A2 These insects form colonies in which individual members have allocated tasks of benefit to the colony.
Ants and bees are insects that live in groups. what are these insects called as?
Colonial insect
What insects give acid stings?
The only insects that can truly sting are bees, wasps and ants, and then just the social species (living together in colonies).
What are some examples of social insects?
Ants, Bees and Wasps. The Order Hymenoptera.
