Honeybee is a social insect: bee colony is an organism composed of many honeybees, and it is the unit on which honeybees live. Although a single bee is also an independent organism, it can't survive without the swarm. Bee colony, as a social way of living, is also formed in the long history of development.
Honeybee belongs to complete metamorphosis and development, including egg, larva, pupa and adult.
Living in the same hive, there are obvious differences and division of labor in morphology, physiology and function between different bees. The colony is composed of a queen bee, tens of thousands of workers and hundreds of drones cultivated in the breeding period.
Queen bee, also known as female bee, is large in size, well-developed and specialized in reproduction and oviposition. The only function of a drone is to mate with the queen, reproduce, and then die. Worker bees account for the majority of the colony, and they are female bees with incomplete reproductive organ development. Because of different ages, they can be divided into three different worker bee colonies, i.e. conservation bees, nest building bees and bee collecting bees. Conservation bee is the youngest worker bee, whose main duty is to care for and raise larvae. At the end of the work, worker bees fly a short distance from the nest, and begin to secrete beeswax ten days later. At this time, worker bees become nesting bees. Three weeks later, the wax gland of worker bee stopped secreting and became a full-time bee picker.
