Honey bee life cycle lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. Each unfertilized egg contains a unique combination of 50% of the queen's genes and develops into a haploid drone. The fertilized eggs develop into either diploid workers or virgin queens if fed royal jelly. The average lifespan of a queen is three to four years; drones usually die upon mating or are expelled from the hive before the winter; and workers may live for a few weeks in the summer and several months in areas with an extended winter. The weight progression of the worker egg, larva: Honey bee life cycle The honey bee life
African Honey Bee (organization) African Honey Bee (organization) African Honey Bee is a social-franchise beekeeping micro-business incubator established in 2007. Its purpose is to alleviate poverty through sustainable beekeeping, by enabling rural families to benefit from the unpolluted prime honey producing vegetation around them. African Honey Bee was set up by Guy Stubbs, a Christian Social Entrepreneur , who has expertise in developmental beekeeping. Andrew Weeks and Kobus Visser contributed towards the success of the project. African Honey Bee supports viable micro beekeeping businesses in southern Africa, by developing a network of interlinked beekeeping incubator farms that provide access to training, mentorship, low cost