Their predators include the mockingbird, Bee eater (bird), dragonflies, and some species of wasps. Many animals, including bears, may damage their hives to get the honey inside.
robin
Thay are skunkes
with their sting. duuuh.
Varroa mite
They fly away.
Bumble bees are usually placid but will defend themselves if they feel threatened.
Bees will always defend their home against any one or any thing which they perceive as a threat.
There are many insect eating birds which will stay around beehives and consume dozens of bees a day. Skunks or opossums will scrape on the entrance of the hive and eat the bees that emerge to defend the hive. Bears are notorious for overturning hives for the honey. In late summer, yellow jackets capture returning bees and bite their abdomen for their honey.
ants work hard to find the right food and stay away from enemies
they are alike in protecting themselves, because they can protect themselves without helping.
The enemies of bees include parasites, chemicals, diseases, and predators (such as bears and skunks).
The lifetime of the colony is the length of time that pollen stored in the honeycomb will keep bees alive. Bees make the honeycomb so that the cells will survive inclement weather and natural enemies. The nectar and pollen reserves service that generation that procures them and those that are being raised and that will be born that year.