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 Loops Honey Loops Honey Loops is a breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's and sold in Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, the UK, India, Spain, Malta, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The mascot of Honey Loops is a male honeybee called Loopy, who has now been replaced by a female bee called Pops (primarily as the mascot of Honey Pops). The cereal was originally marketed as Honey Nut Loops, however the "Nut" has since been dropped from the name and the list of ingredients in 1998. The commercials for the original product explicitly mentioned the "crunchy nuts" it used to contain. In