Female bees (the queen and all worker bees) have 16 pairs of chromosomes (32 chromosomes in all).
Male bees (drones) hatch from an unfertilized egg, therefore they only have one set of 16 chromosomes.
This is not quite as simple as just giving a number. Female bees (queens and workers) are diploid -- they have chromosomes from both the mother and father -- so have 32 chromosomes, 16 chromosomes from the queen and 16 from the drone who provided the sperm. Male bees (drones) are haploid -- they only have chromosomes from the mother because they develop from an unfertilized egg -- so have just 16 chromosomes from the queen.
When a queen lays an egg she chooses whether or not to fertilise it from her store of sperm. If she does, the resulting insect will be female; if not, it will be male. So, all female bees are diploid -- two sets of chromosomes, one from father, one from mother, and all male bees are haploid -- one set of chromosomes from the mother only.
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Bees: /bees/ Beehive: bee/hive
A swarm of honey bees can have as many as 25,000 bees in it.
Bees don't have toes.
"bees" is the plural of "bee." One bee, many bees.
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