Bees

Not all bees produce honey. There are thousands of species of bees but less the a dozen produce honey. The European honeybee is the most common. There are so many species of bees and they all share something similar. There are three parts of the honey bee, the head the thorax and the abdomen. In every average hive there are 30000 to 60000. A bee can not live without its colony. There are three kinds of bees in the nest the workers the queen and the drones. The drones don't do much. They fertilize the queens eggs and they can not sting and they can not feed them selves, at the end of summer the workers force the drones out of the nest and they die. The workers make up most of the population they are all female the only males are the drones.  The workers make the nest out of wax that comes out of secreting glands from the abdomen. The make the hex structures that honey pollen and eggs go into. They eat the pollen which gives them protein. The queen lays about 1500 eggs a day! The only thing she eats is royal jelly. She has a smooth stinger and she can sting as much as needed.  The worker bees sting to keep predators away from the nest, but after they sting they die.