دسته

حشرات

گروه

بالداران

خانواده

Apidae

نام

Reproductive female: queen

non-reproductive female: worker

male: drone

حدود

All continents except Antarctica.

محل زندگی

Open woodland, grasslands, and forests.

اندازه

Queen: 16 to 20 mm (0.63 to 0.79 in).

Worker: 10 to 15 mm (0.39 to 0.59 in).

Drone: 14 to 18 mm (0.55 to 0.71 in).

عادت غذایی

Honey bees are herbivores; they eat nectar and honey. Larvae eat pollen and royal jelly, which is secreted by worker bees.

زاد و ولد

The queen bee lays all of the eggs for her hive—sometimes more than 1500 a day. The eggs, laid in the cells of the honeycomb, hatch in three days.

طول عمر

Queen bees live for one to three years, while workers and drones live for about five weeks.

آیا میدانید؟

A healthy bee colony can have as many as 100,000 bees.

Worker bees communicate with a dance, indicating the distance to and direction of a nectar source.

The drone"s only function is to mate with the queen.

Worker bees maintain the temperature of the hive by beating their wings.

Only worker bees can produce the wax used to build the hive.