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Honeybees
​Bees of all varieties live on nectar and pollen. Without bees, pollination would be difficult and time consuming - it is estimated that one-third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination. Bees have a long, straw-like tongue called a probiscus that allows them to drink the nectar from deep within blossoms. Bees are also equipped with two wings, two antennae, and three segmented body parts (the head, the thorax, and the abdomen). The hive population consists of a single queen, a few hundred drones, and thousands of worker bees.
Honeybees, unlike other kinds of bees, survive as a colony over winter, the honey they produce is to feed them during the winter months when there is no pollen or nectar for them to collect.
QUEEN
The honeybee queen is the largest of the bees in a honeybee colony, measuring around 2 cm - that's about twice the length of a worker - drones are slightly larger than workers.
As she establishes her colony, she may lay 1000 eggs per day – one egg every 20 seconds - and more than her own body weight in eggs.
The role of the Queen is:
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to mate with drone bees (males),
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produce eggs,
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and to begin new colonies through swarming.
WORKER
The role of the hard working female honeybee includes:
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foraging for food
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building honey comb, which includes secreting wax from their abdomens
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keeping the nest clean
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defending the nest from predators
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feeding the larvae
DRONES
The role of drones is to mate with honey bee queens from different locations.
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