A Worker Bee does not live often over five weeks. She actually works herself to death!
Just think. A bee has to visit nearly one hundred flowers to fill her honey-sack with nectar, and when it is full, it does not contain a full drop!
Wax Pockets
Under the body of the Worker Bee are the little wax pockets. The wax is very important, as it is used to make the cells in which the honey is stored, and the cells in which the eggs are laid.
The Honey-Sac
The honey, you remember, is carried to the hive in the honey-sac of the Worker Bees.
The Body of the Queen Bee
The Queen Bee, or Mother Bee, is longer than the Worker Bee and has a tapering, graceful body. She has no pollen basket, because it is not part of her work to gather pollen or honey, her work being to lay eggs—sometimes as many as three thousand in twenty-four hours, equal to about twice her own weight!
The Sting
Both the Worker Bees and the Queen Bee have a sting to use as a weapon of defense.