Bee-hind The Buzz
Birds & Blooms|August/September 2019

Learn the sweet truth about these honey producers.

Rachel Maidl
Bee-hind The Buzz

60,000 Hives have a very strict social structure composed of three groups: queens, workers and drones. There’s only one queen in healthy hives, plus 2,000 to 60,000 female workers that collect pollen and keep the hive running, and up to 500 larger male drones whose main job is to mate with the queen bee.

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