European Honey Bees

European Honey Bees are made out of three different types of bees. There is:
The Queen Bee, Worker Bees and Drones. This is called a colony. Honey Bees live outside or in beekeepers hives. Honey bees come out in the summer all around the world.

The Queen Bee is the biggest bee in the colony. She has a life span of 2 years and can lay up to 3000 eggs a day.
The Worker Bees are the smallest bees of the colony they are the ones that sting us if we harm them. A worker bee has a life span of 28-35 days. There are 50-70,000 worker bees in the colony. Their job is to go and collect pollen from flowers.
The Drones are the male bees and their sole purpose is to mate with the Queen bee. Drones have no stingers. If the hive runs out of food the Drones are usually the ones that get kicked out of the hive.

European honey bees make honey and store it for the winter. They have produced honey for 100,000,000 years. The hive cells are a hexagonal shape, which is where the honey sits. Honey is one of the only foods that does not expire. Honey bees can stroke 11,400 a minute.

In conclusion to this report a honey bee is a unique insect that produces sweet honey for us to eat.