Let's start with a light content of good information, making it clear that I could supply more, but put what I found basic, nutritious and interesting. If you are not interested, look directly at the end of the edition to go to the answer of; Do you know why bees die after nailing their sting?

To start the bees are well organized. They are classified in three, according to the work that corresponds to each one.

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Classification:

Queen.

She is the representative of the hive. with a fertile sexual organ. (Able to produce eggs). Already on the throne, it secretes from the cuticle, pheromones formed by saturated compounds. This chemical substance deprives the development of fertility in the other females, leaving them sterile. And so maintain the leadership.

The objective of this substance is to give personality to the hive.
All bees smell of the substance that the queen provides to differentiate herself from the bees of other hives. On the other hand, they lay fertilized and unfertilized eggs.

To add a little more, they can live up to 3 years and have a long, curved stinger, similar to a fine needle with a curved, completely smooth tip.Idle.

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Idle.

It comes from the unfertilized egg of the queen, the male sex of the bees, which provides food to the hive and helps the rest of the bees in the preparation of the honey. But its main function is to copulate with the queen, (action of joining sexually). This happens in the middle of the flight, ending the sexual act on the ground or on the lawn, this is known as nuptial flight or fertilization flight. The queen only leaves the hive to have sexual activity, then the idler dies.

Its agijon is replaced by an ovipositor (modified egg container).

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worker bee

In this case, I will speak in the plural, since 90% of the community in the hive are highly organized worker bees, who share the responsibilities.

Simplify the tasks of the worker bee to not expand the text too much:

They clean the cells where the eggs are deposited, these cells are manufactured and reconstructed with a wax that they create by means of glands located underneath their body.

They feed their young. They also collect, transport and store the nectar with which they produce honey. They work together to ventilate the hive. How? They move their wings to generate backward air currents, some draw hot air from the hive and others cool it. Obviously they are also those who defend the hive and its surroundings if they are threatened.

The agijon is curved, similar to the bent tip of a thin pin with thorns projecting to the opposite side like a harpoon and its texture is totally smooth.

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Do you know why bees die after nailing their sting?

This is due to the resemblance that the sting has to a harpoon, which acts as an insurance that blocks the sting and prohibits its exit.

The internal organs of the worker bee are attached to the pulson, but the tagma that connects the pulson of the abdomen is weak, when undertaking its flight, the pulson remains in place, as it moves away, leaving its organs outside causing its death.

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Here I leave the sources used where you can find more information.

http://www.bioenciclopedia.com/abeja/
https://definicion.de/abeja/

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