Honey bee one queen bee, a fertile female; seasonally up to a few thousand drone bees, or fertile males; and tens of thousands of sterile female worker bees. Details vary among the different species of honey bees, but common features include: In cold climates, honey bees stop flying when the temperature drops below about and crowd into the central area of the hive to form a "winter cluster". The worker bees huddle around the queen bee at the center of the cluster, shivering to keep the center between at the start of winter (during the broodless period) and once the queen resumes
Honey bee single or a few exposed combs on high tree limbs, on cliffs, and sometimes on buildings. They can be very fierce. Periodically robbed of their honey by human "honey hunters", colonies are easily capable of stinging a human being to death if provoked. Eastern "Apis" species include three or four species, including "A. koschevnikovi", "Apis nigrocincta", and "A. cerana". The genetics of the western honey bee "A. mellifera" are unclear. The Koschevnikov's bee ("Apis koschevnikovi") is often referred to in the literature as the “red bee of Sabah;” however "A. koschevnikovi" is pale reddish in Sabah State, Borneo, Malaysia, but