The hive is like a kingdom, with a queen and her loyal servants.

The queen bee is one of the biggest bees in the hive. She leaves the hive to mate with a drone bee and lays around 200 eggs a day.

Worker bees are like mothers, they do all the chores and labour. They clean the cells, feed the queen bee, and find the nectar and pollen to make the honey.

Then there’s the drones, they eat the honey, so they are kicked out during winter, so that they don’t deplete the food supply for the rest of the hive.