European Honey Bees

European honey bees are made up of a queen bee, drones and workers. Their family is called a colony and live in a hive and can be found outside and in beekeepers hives all around the world during the summer time.

The queen bee is the leader of the colony and is the largest bee of a lifespan of two years.It can lay up to 3000 eggs a day. The drones are male bees that mate with the queen bee to reproduce and they have no stinger and if they don't work or there's not enough honey they get kicked out of the colony. The worker bee are the smallest of the colony and their job is to go out and collect pollen from flowers. There are 50-70 000 worker bees in the colony and they have a lifespan of 28-35 days.

The honey bees have been producing honey for 100 000 years and they store it in the winter time. Honey is the only food that doesn't expire. A honey bee can stroke their wings 11400 times a minute. In conclusion the honey bee is a social and unique insect.