caption: Some Facts About Worker Bees
exif: {"Image DocumentName": "Some Facts About Worker Bees", "Image ImageDescription": "Develops from a fertilized egg. A worker bee spends its first 20 days in the hive performing various task \u2013 cleaning cells, feeding young larva, building wax comb, etc. She defends the hive. She has a stinger, but can sting only once. She dies soon after stinging. The worker bee also has pollen baskets on her rear legs to gather and collect pollen while she is foraging for nectar outside the hive. Wax comes from 4 pairs of wax glands under the abdomen. Worker bees are sexually underdeveloped females. They may number as many as 60,000 in a colony. The population of a colony depends on a number of factors such as: the egg laying ability of the queen, the space available in the hive (area where the bees live) and the incoming food supply. They are called workers because that is what they do. They collect food and water for the colony, build wax comb, do the housework, maintain the interior temperatures of the hive. and guard the hive against intruders [in other words: they can sting]. Female worker bees under certain conditions can lay eggs but because they are not mated, they produce eggs that only develop into drones.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}