Bees Wallpaper, #390

Bee is four-winged insect of the family Apoidea, usually with a sting. We know more than 12.000 speices of Bees. The hive bee or honeybee Apis mellifera establishes perennial colonies of about 80,000, the majority being infertile females (workers), with a few larger fertile males (drones), and a single very large fertile female (the queen). Worker bees live for no more than a few weeks, while a drone may live a few months, and a queen several years.