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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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
All kinds of bees! There is Bumble bees,Wasp...well maybe, and all sorts!
Almost all common bees will do that, honey, bumble or carpenter
honey hence the name honey bees Honey bees also produce bees wax by converting honey.