Honey bees are social insects. Their colonies includes a queen,
drones and workers. Honey bees have been producing honey for
over 100 million years. Honey bees produce honey as a food
source which they store in the hives and consume during the long
winter months when there are no flowers blooming and there is no
nectar around. They produce so much honey, more than they can
eat and this allows there hives to be farmed and the honey made
available to humans. Honey bees will sting if provoked, but most
are unwilling to. A Honey bee can only sting once, then it dies.
However, the queen honey bee is capable of stinging multiple
times, but she does not use this capability at all. All honey
bees live in colonies where the workers will sting intruders as
a form of defence and alarmed bees will release a pheromone that
stimulates the attack response in other bees. The different
species of honey bees are distinguished from all other bee
species by the possession of small barbs on the sting, but these
barbs are found on