All the bees in the colony open the cells and eat some honey from time to time to give them a bit of energy. Pollen is also rich in protein. The queen bee cannot survive without her worker bees to feed and clean her. Hundreds of workers have to survive to look after the queen bee. For this to happen, the honey bee gets nectar in the summer.
Honey is important to the bee colony throughout the year.
It gives nourishment for the larvae and for the bees that are on duty in the nest. When the worker bee is about 3 weeks old, it flys from the hive to get familiar with the surroundings outside the hive. A bee's body is hairy. Its two back legs have tiny pollen baskets in them and their two middle legs have stiff hairs on them for brushing the pollen into the little baskets. The middle legs also have a tiny spur for removing wax from the bees underparts.