The queen is a large, slender individual whose sole function is to lay eggs. In this she is most remarkable, since she may produce up to 1,500 eggs per day, 250,000 per year, and, under some circumstances, more than a million during her lifetime. The eggs laid in a single day may weigh more than her own body weight. She lays two kinds of eggs-those that she fertilizes and places in small hexagonal cells that develop into worker bees and those that she does not fertilize, which she places only in the larger hexagonal cells that develop into drone bees. Occasionally she places fertilized eggs in round, peanut-shaped queen cells. These are temporary cells that hang down. The worker and drone cells lie in a horizontal position. Approximately 95 percent of the typical hexagonal cells of the honey comb are worker cells, 25 per square inch; the remainder are drone cells, 16 per square inch.

Bees sting only if they feel highly threatened or their nest is under attack. If a bee stings you it trys to poison and kill you, but only in self defence. If a bee stings you it will die shortly after. It's like a Kamakazee Pilot.