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There are over 25,000 known species of bee. Over 4,00 species reside in the U.S and 250 in Great Britain.  There are 10 types of honey bees and one hybrid, the Africanized honey bee

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Bumble bees can sting more than once because they have smooth stingers.

Color- black with yellow stripes

Phylum- Arthropoda

Class- Insecta

Order- Hymenoptera

Family- Apidae

Species- Bombus

Bumble bees have one of the most painful bee stings

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Carpenter bees are solitary, they build nests only for themselves and only feed their young. Called carpenter bees because they are known to drill through wood.

Color- Blue/Black

Phylum- Arthropoda

Class- Insecta

Order- Hymenoptera

Family- Apidae

Species- Xylocopa

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Honey bees live in large “families” called colonies. Honey bees are the only social insect whose colonies can last for years, due to the fact that they huddle and eat honey during winter months. They can pollinate more than 100 types of crops in the U.S.A. They are only capable of stinging once due to the fact that the stinger is barbed.

Color- yellow w/ brown bands

Phylum- Arthropoda

Class- Insecta

Order- Hymenoptera

Family- Apidae

Species- Apis

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Eyes  Bees have two sets of eyes. Compound and simple. The compound eyes are the large ones that you notice when observing a honey bee. Each individual compound eye is made of many smaller eye (ommatidia) units. Each eye unit in the large eye sends an image to the bee’s brain where it is pieced into a larger picture. Bees also have three simple eyes. These eyes basically help the bee figure out where to land by using UV vision to find where the pollen is.

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Proboscis Proboscis is basically the bee’s tongue. Relative to the honey bee, the tongue is actually fairly long. The reason for its length is that it makes it easier for collecting nectar. It’s also used for cleaning their hairs and the queen.  The length of the proboscis averages about 6.5mm.

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The mandible is the incredibly strong jaw that protects the rest of the mouth parts. The queen’s and the drones mandibles are pointed to aid in cutting while a worker’s is smooth for the protection of wax.

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The thorax is the middle and is primarily used for moving around. The most notable parts of the thorax are the 6 legs and 2 wings that sprout out of it. The rapid contractions of the muscles in the thorax are to thank for the bee’s quicksilver movements in the air.

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A bee’s wings can carry it through the air at 15 mph. There are two pairs of wings attached by a row of hooks on the second wing.

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Bees have three pairs of legs which are split into six segments. The front legs are used for cleaning the antennae. All of the legs have claws and sticky pads for gripping onto flower pedals.

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The deciding factor in how the egg becomes male or female is if the the queen fertilizes it. If not, the egg will hold a male bee (drone). If fertilized, the egg will either be a worker or a queen since they are both female.

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Within the first 3 days of hatching from the eggs, all of the larvae live off of a diet of “royal jelly”. After those first 3 days the diet is ended for both workers and drones. This is only to make sure that the workers tend to the next queen’s every need. Workers use wax to cap the cells before the larvae transition to pupa.

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When the pupa stage is hit, the bee begins to take a more recognizable appearance. Hair, eyes, wings, and legs start to grow.

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Finally, the fully developed bee will chew it’s way out of the cell, it will move away so that workers can prepare for the cell next egg.

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Bees only sting when they feel threatened, but even when they do sting, it’s usually only once. The reason for this is that honey bees have barbed stingers, which is great for stinging predatory insects, but not so great for stinging mammals. When the bee stings, the barbs usually get stuck in the skin, and when the bee pulls away its guts also get pulled out. Some species of bee such as the bumble bee and carpenter bee can sting more than once because their stingers are smooth.

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Amazing Time-Lapse: Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes | National Geographic

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In the book "Stung" one of the issues is that bees go extinct, because of this plants are dead and everything is a barren wasteland. If this were to happen in real life, it would most likely only occur to a few species of bee, but many of the crops we depend on would die. Fatigue would probably occur in poorer countries.