And learn how to identify the Africanized honey bee on sight. Back to Top Click on any of the vocabulary words below to hear them pronounced and used in a sentence. This could lead to bees with gentler characteristics and high honey production. The queen rules the colony. She has a four year life span and can lay up to 3,000 eggs a day.
Drones are larger, male bees.
When the hive gets too crowded, the queen goes with half the workers to set up a new colony. This is called a swarm. Larvae are fed special food called royal jelly, that turns them into queens. Vocabulary Quiz Whiz Create a variety of interesting quizzes to test your students' word power. Puzzlemaker Send your students home with word searches, crossword puzzles and more.