Question

The worker honey bee normally lives for about
A. 30 days
B. 90 days
C. 10 days
D. 15 days

Answer 1

Hint: A eusocial bee that acts as nurse bees and as housekeepers who work and expand the hive. They act as foragers and scouts that bring back the food and look for new hive locations. They also help in taking care of young ones.

Complete answer: Honey bees are social insects. They are popular and economically beneficial insects. They live together in groups and cooperate in foraging tasks. They take care of young ones and have different types or castes of individuals. Honey bees have two genders, males and females. Females are further divided into two castes: sterile workers and fertile queens.
Workers are reproductively underdeveloped females that do all the work for the colony. It has a lifespan of about 30 days. A colony can have about 2000-60000 workers. A queen is a fertile female that is specialized to produce eggs. When the queen dies then, workers select some worker larvae and feed them on royal jelly. Therefore, the difference between a worker bee and a queen is the quality and quantity of the larval diet. A colony has only one queen that affects the colony by producing some chemicals known as pheromones. These pheromones control and regulate the behavior of the bees of the colonies. Drones are the male bees. A colony has about 0-300 drones during the summer and spring seasons.
Hence, the correct option is (A)-30 days.

Note: A female worker bee lacks the full reproductive potential of the colony queen’s bee. They are correlated with the increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to the queen. They have several roles in the hive.