In a honey bee colony, there are three primary types of bees: the queen bee, the worker bees, and the drone bees. The queen bee is the largest and longest-lived bee in the colony. Her main role is ...

The queen bee might live for a few years, much longer than female worker bees and drones. A honey bee hive is a wonderfully complex structure. Patrice Skrzynski/Getty Images One way for an ...

They told me a honey bee colony includes one female queen, many female workers and, depending on the time of year, some male drones. Workers have lots of jobs. They gather nectar and pollen.

The study suggests that this may be because male honey bees are haploid drones, meaning that they have half as many chromosomes DNA as female worker bees. This has previously been thought to make ...

With anywhere from around 20,000 to 80,000 residents, depending on the season, honey bee colonies are busy places. One queen bee commands a hive of male drone bees and sterile female worker bees ...