Honey bee life cycle Honey bee life cycle The honey bee life cycle, here referring exclusively to the domesticated Western honey bee, depends greatly on their social structure. Unlike a bumble bee colony or a paper wasp colony, the life of a honey bee colony is perennial. The three types of honey bees in a hive are: queens (egg-producers), workers (non-reproducing females), and drones (males whose main duty is to find and mate with a queen). Honey bees hatch from eggs in three to four days. They are then fed by worker bees and develop through several stages in the cells. Cells are capped
African Honey Bee (organization) logistics, equipment and consumables, appropriate technology and access to market. The organization also promotes the benefits of locally produced honey to South African honey consumers, and provides marketing opportunities. Beekeepers that partner with African Honey Bee are provided with training, mentoring and support; low cost infrastructure, equipment, consumables and logistics; and off-take agreements/partnerships with large retailers. African Honey Bee is able to guarantee its product quality to the consumer, because it requires the beekeepers to manage their bees according to its Afri-hive organic beekeeping system, its Nektar management and traceability technology, and its quality standards, as well as being managed