Western honey bee Since workers are not fully sexually developed, they do not mate with drones and thus can only produce haploid (male) offspring. Queens and workers have a modified ovipositor, a stinger, with which they defend the hive. Unlike bees of any other genus and the queens of their own species, the stinger of worker honey bees is barbed. Contrary to popular belief, a bee does not always die soon after stinging; this misconception is based on the fact that a bee will usually die after stinging a human or other mammal. The stinger and its venom sac, with musculature and a
Honey bee a dark, coppery color in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera, Indonesia. It's habitat is limited to the tropical evergreen forests of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra, and they do not live in tropical evergreen rain forests which extend into Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Apis nigrocincta is a cavity-nesting species. The species has rust-colored scapes, legs, and cylpeuses, with reddish-tan hair color that covers most of the body. "Apis cerana", the eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia. It was domesticated as subspecies "A. c. indica" and kept in hives in a