Honeybee
They are very important pollinators, helping to transfer pollen between male and female plants.
Honey bees live in hives with three different roles - the queen, the female worker bees, and the male drone bees whose purpose is to mate with the queen.
If the queen dies, a new queen is selected as a larvae and fed royal jelly, allowing them to develop into a fertile queen.
Over the summer, the queen can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day.
Their wings beat about 200 times per second, and they can fly as fast as 15 mph.
Over the lifetime of a worker bee, they produce about 1/12 a teaspoon of honey.
Over the past 15 years we have seen a drop in the bee population, referred to as ‘colony collapse disorder’, billions of honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared.