What makes you amazing in division of work in Honey bee colony? Support your answer.

i. Honey bees are social insects. Honeybees are live in colonies and follows division of labour.

ii. A typical colony consists of one queen, whose work is to lay fertilised eggs.

iii. There are 20,000 to 80,000 female worker bees.

iv. Worker bees perform all the task relating to the colony such as foraging food, constructing hive, storing honey for winter.

v. There are hundreds of male drones, they fertilize the queen outside the hive in mid-air, during nuptial flights. Soon after the fertilisation, the drone dies.

vi. A new queen mates with a new drone. The female workers lay unfertilised eggs.

vii. The division of labour and survival of the fittest, as exhibited by honey bees, is indeed amazing as well as interesting.