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
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