Bee Hives

A healthy hive of honeybees functions like a perfect and fluid organism at the center of all activity is the queen and egg laying machine. The queen is actually a slave to her duties, playing up to 2500 eggs a day, as many as two million in her lifetime. The worker bees are all female and make up the bulk of the colony. In a typical hive of 30000 bees, only about 100 are males called drones with oversize eyes and bulky bodies. Drones are not equipped to gather pollen or nectar and must rely on the workers to feed them. The invaluable work bees do takes its toll in the summer. Workers only live around 30 days, literally work to death. But the hive is constantly replenished with new generations of bees ready to go to work from the moment they hatch.