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Originally Posted by n4mwd
Sorry but no. There is only one female in the honeybee hive and she is known as the queen. She lays eggs, but she never leaves the hive. I'm pretty sure she can't even fly. The ones that sting are worker bees. Its a suicide sting for honeybees, but not for most other bees like wasps and such. There are also male bees and drone bees, but I don't think they do much.
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That should have been "There is only one
fertile female in the hive". All of the worker bees in the hive are female, but they can't procreate, only the queen can do that. All of the bees you see every day in your yard are females. The males (drones) live only for reproduction purposes and they pretty much hang around the hive until called on to do their thing.