There are short tongued ones and the long tongued ones which are the honey bees that collect pollen and nectar. The bees that live together in a colony are called social bees. The bee that lives by itself is known as the solitary bee.
Wild bees usually build their city of wax comb in a quiet place like a hollow tree. The person who keeps bees care for them in wooden hives encouraging them to produce more than is needed to feed the colony. The bee keeper takes their surplus away from the bees to sell in the bottles, jars or cut sections of the honey comb.
There are a queen, possibly 200 drones and perhaps as many as 200,000 worker bees in a colony. The queen bee is a completely developed female bee. She mates with one of the male bees or drones after she lays as many as 3,000 eggs each day, depositing each in a cell of the honey comb.
The worker bee is a female but it cannot lay eggs because it is not completely developed. One of the important duties of the worker bee is to look after the young bees or grubs.
Cities of wax combs are built by _________.
the queen
the drones
wild solitary bees
wild bees
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