THE HONEY BEE

The honey bee is also known as Apis mellifera.

Only female honey bees can sting, the males (drones) are not able to sting.
If you are stung it will probably be by a worker.
Queen honey bees can sting, but they remain close to the hive, and so a sting form a honey bee queen would be very rare.

If the queen honey bee is removed from the hive, within 15 minutes, the rest of the colony knows about it!

A typical honey bee colony may have around 50,000 workers.

Male honey bees (drones) have no father, but they do have a grandfather!

The queen honey bee is about twice the length of a worker.

A honey bee queen may lay as many as 1000 - 2000 eggs per day as she establishes her colony.