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The queen bee is the queen because she is the only bee in the hive capable of laying eggs.

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She will attract a drone in a “drone congregating area”. She will mate with about 10-20 drones. A drone who mates with a queen will die

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They are always female. She is two centimeters in size. She is fed royal jelly throughout her larvae form, instead of the usual three days. She is not the one who makes the calls, the worker bees can decide when to get a new queen or kill an old one. She can sting multiple times and survive. There can only be one queen(the reason for swarming).

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Queen bees are made in a special queen cell. Queen cells are larger, have a rougher surface and are shaped like a peanut.

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Queen bees give off  a queen pheromone. This tells worker bees her health. When some worker bees don’t get the pheromone, they know it’s time for a new queen. There are too many bees for one. This is what leads to swarming

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When the queen bee dies or goes missing the worker bees will make 6-7 queen cells for a replacement. The first one to hatch will be the new queen. The new queen will kill the rest in their cells.

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They are always female. They do many jobs throughout their life(up to six weeks active season; six to eight months during winter).

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Days 1-3 they do housekeeping. They clean their own cell and others to ready them for new eggs.

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Days 3-16 they are undertakers. They dispose of the dead bees by taking them away from the hive.

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Days 4-12 they are nursing bees. They feed and care for the developing larvae.

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Days 7-12  they tend to the queen.

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Days 12-18 they control the temperature of the hive.

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Days 12-35 they make wax beeswax for wax combs.

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Days 18-21 they guard the hive.

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Days 22-42 they collect pollen and make honey.

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Honey Combs are hexagonal combs bees make out of beeswax to store honey. Bees need to store this honey for the winter when they can't leave the hive to get pollen.

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Cells are also used to put bees in their egg form. Worker bee cells are the smallest of the three castes. Drones are larger so the top of the cell is usually more concave. Queen cells are shaped much larger and look like a peanut.

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Cells are also used for communication. They can talk through vibrations!

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Bees use hexagonal shapes because it is efficient to building. It uses less materials, and they all fit perfectly together.

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Beeswax is made by worker bees. Worker bees have 8 pairs of wax glands under their abdomen that allow them to make flat wax flakes. she scrapes a wax scale from her abdomen using the spines on her pollen basket and passes them to her front legs.Holding the flake in place, she will then mix it with saliva by chewing with her mandibles. This adjusts the malleability of the wax, making it more suitable as a building material.

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Bees use beeswax to make cells.

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Swarming is when there is too many bees in one hive so the one hive splits into two.

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Swarming is done either when there is not enough space in the hive or when the colony is trying to reproduce. Swarming leads to rapid growth.

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Swarming can also be done when the temperature in the hive is up too high, this will decrease the population and is due to the fact that the beekeeper does not have proper ventilation.

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When swarming worker bees make special queen cells preparing for the prime queen to leave. They will make multiple and the first one to hatch will become the queen.

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The prime queen by now is too heavy to fly. The worker bees stop feeding her until she is light enough. She stops her egg laying process.

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The prime queen then leaves with 50%-60% of the hive and goes about a stone throw away from the original hive. The queen still has trouble flying. The original hives new queen hatches and kills the others while they’re in their cells. If two queens hatch at the same time they will fight to the death.

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Big predators include skunks, bears, raccoons and even mice. These usually are after the honey. Yellow jackets are one of the most common insect predator.

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Several other hornet species also prey on bees within and around the bee's hive.

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Inside the hive, wax worms (the larvae of the wax moth) can destroy the comb of the hive.
Several species of beetles will get into a hive, lay eggs and their larvae will work destruction of brood or comb.
There are several parasitic mites that attack the brood directly and can spread other diseases throughout a hive.

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The biggest predators to bees still remain humans. Humans steal their honey, kill them with pesticides and the bees can't do anything because beekeepers have special suits to protect from bee stings.

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Royal jelly! For bees, it's what makes all the difference between a queen and a worker. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, John Szymakowski, Peso255, Jeremy Peng, Avi Yaschin, and Fatima Iqbal.

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Bees are still eaten by other animals such as spiders, frogs and even other plants like the Venus Fly Trap.

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Beeswax is also surprisingly edible. It is tasteless, but usually flavored in products.

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Beeswax is very moisturizing, it is used in lip balm, hand creams and in hair products and even makeup.

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Queen bees are essential to a hive, they are made queen bees by royal jelly.

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Stung by Bethany Wiggins helps us understand what the world would be like without bees. There would be no pollination leading to a shortage of food and the economy would be ruined.

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1. I like how you put the jobs done in "days".
2.  The queen could use more information like if they are bigger than the other bees.
3. Labeling the pictures would have helped give me a better understanding.
4. Good Job !!!

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1. Keeping the honeycomb facts all together would make it less confusing.
2. I really like the one about communication.
3. I like the pictures

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1. I like how you put a lot of facts.
2. Another picture would have been nice.
3. I like how you didn't chince out on the explanations.

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1. A list of the types of hornets would have helped a little.
2. I like how you put humans as the biggest predator.
3. I did not know that Venus Fly Traps eat them.

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1. The video stayed on topic.
2. Had good information.
3. Kept me on topic.

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1. Like the picture of the book.
2. I don't really see how this is related to the colony.
3. Like the length and the mention of economy.