Bees living in colonies function much like a well-run factory. Each colony has one queen, a mature female who is responsible for laying eggs and repopulating the colony. Bees choose the queen from developing larvae and feed her a special sugar-rich substance called royal jelly that helps her attain her larger size. From these matings, she has enough sperm to last her entire lifetime, and she does not mate again. The queen lays up to 1,500 eggs per day and may live as long as three years.
Bees communicate with one another very effectively.
A bee that locates a food source returns to the hive and performs a dance indicating the location, direction, distance, and type of food source. She circles right, waggles, circles left, and repeats the pattern several times. The angle of the straight run from vertical is equal to the angle between the hive and the food source. See movies of the honeybee dances. Learn to do the waggle dance.