A bee develops from a queen's egg in just 21 days. Three days after the egg is laid, a larva hatches, which is then fed by the other bees. About five days later, the cell is sealed with a thin wax lid. Over the next two weeks, the larva develops into a mature bee, which then breaks through the cell's waxy lid and hatches
A queen lives 4-5 years; she ensures the continued existence of the colony by laying up to 2000 eggs per day
In each colony there lives a queen, around 30,000 workers (depending on the season; around 10,000 in winter and up to 60,000 in summer) and 1000 to 2000 male drones
drones live...
The bees we see collecting nectar or honeydew are worker bees. They only live 30-40 days in summer or 6 months in winter
During its short life, a worker bee performs various, precisely defined tasks one after the other - first in the hive, then as a forager. If she dies of exhaustion after about 1 month, she has covered several thousand kilometers