Bee Hive Essay

What kind of bees live inside the bee hive? There are three kind of honey bees that live inside a bee hive. Those three bees are, The Queen, Worker, and the Drone. They all have their distinctive jobs to do. And how do bees survive the coldness of the winter season?

The Queen has the longest body compared to the other two types of bees. She is equipped with a stinger that does not have a fish hook like barb at the end of the stinger. The purpose of the stinger is to kill any rival queen when she comes out of the cell. The main work of the queen is to lay eggs and can lay more than 800 eggs a day. The Queen bee can live up to 4 years. The next type of bee is the Worker bee. The Worker bee can sting us only if she feels threatened or she need to defend a bee hive. The stinger of a Worker bee has a fish hook like barb at the end
The job of the worker bee is to fly to the flowers and take up the nectar which she takes back the nectar to the hive that will get turned into honey. During the nectar gathering season she will work so hard and make herself tired enough that she dies. The Worker bee is a female but is not fertile so she cannot lay eggs. The last type of bee is called The Drone. The Drone is a male bee and is the largest bee in the hive. The drone has no stinger to defend itself. The drone has no useful purpose in the hive. Its only purpose is to fly around and look for a virgin Queen Bee. After mating with the Queen Bee, the seminal sac of the drone will be ripped out of its body and will be stored inside the body of the Queen for future use. The drones who do not hook up with a Queen will be kicked out of the hive when the cold weather comes and they will die. This brings up another question, how do Honey Bees survive the cold winter days? Firstly, the Honey Bees will spend spring, summer and early fall creating and storing honey for those cold winter days when they can’t fly out to collect the