BEES

Every hive needs a queen. The queen bee mates with a male, called a drone. She then lays all the eggs. New hives are formed in summer, when a young queen leads lots of workers out of the old hive.	Worker honeybees look after the young; and turn the nectar, into something that we call honey.
A large hive can hold up to 50 000 bees.	The parasitic bee looks like a blue fly. The parasitic bee looks like a bee, because the wings are exactly the same. It is actually a bee, as the name suggests.

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