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Describe social life of honey-bee.

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Answered by rutujalawande123
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Bee social behavior

While not all bees are social, honey bees and bumble bees live in complex societies and are referred to as eusocial.  Eusociality is an extreme form of social behavior found in just a few types of animals and is characterized by:

The presence of several generations in a single nest at the same time

Cooperation by some members of the society in caring for offspring that are not their own

Division of labor with queens that reproduce a lot and workers that reproduce very little if at all                                    

Bee architecture: bees cooperate to make elaborate nests

Honey bees nest in large cavities such as hollowed-out trees.  They take well to other enclosed spaces, whether these occur in nature or are made by humans.  Humans have taken advantage of this habit by creating bee hives-- boxes that have an appropriate entrance and are the right size and shape to house a colony of honey bees.  From wax secreted by glands in their abdomens, honey bees build vertical sheets of hexagonal honey comb, in which they store honey and pollen.  An individual honey comb hexagon (called a cell) can instead serve as home for a single developing bee larva, which is fed secretions from the heads of adult bees, and eventually undergoes metamorphosis to become an adult bee.

Bumble bees usually nest on the ground in the abandoned remnants of rodent nests or in patches of dried grass.  The nests are usually lined with mammal fur or soft plant material.  Bumble bees use wax secreted by their abdomens mixed with pollen to make oval cells in which nectar is stored or pollen is packed.  In other cells, the queen lays eggs and then the growing larvae are fed honey and pollen by adult bees.  There are usually several eggs per cell.  Although both honey bees and bumble bees have nests consisting of various cells, the size and shape of bumble bee cells are much less regular than honey bee comb.  

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