Honey Bee

Honey bee

Honey bee colonies have a much more complex infrastructure. There are much more structural and behaviour differences between the queen and the worker bees. The main role of the honey bee queen is to produce eggs. Colonies can produce over 100,000 workers. The workers produce a large amount of honey which can enable the colony to survive through the winter, in the absence of other nectar resources.

Unlike bumblebees, honeybee males are produced in the spring and after mating with the new queens, these males will be expelled or killed by the workers.