The queen can lay as many as 2000 eggs in one day. The male drone bees are short and heavy-set and do not gather nectar. The female worker bees are the ones that have the stingers and are the ones that do the cleaning, guarding the entrance, building combs, feeding the brood, gathering nectar and pollen for honey processing. Bees are valuable because they cross-pollinate flowering plants and fruit blossoms. Many fruits and seed crops would not produce if it was not for bees.
Many beekeepers keep their hives within half a mile from the nectar source.
Even though bees can fly as far as three miles, bees use nectar as fuel, so the shorter the travelling distance, the greater the amount of nectar is available for producing honey. Bees have certain dances to tell other workers where the nectar is located. A Round dance is done when the nectar is less than 100 metres from the hive. If the nectar is more than 100 metres, the Waggle dance, which shows the directions and the distance to the food source, is performed. Bees have to travel the equivalent distance of three orbits around the earth, which uses one ounce of honey as fuel, to produce one pound of honey.