This is a cute little bee family illustration. I have made it recently.
Software: Adobe Illustrator
Bee comes from the Old English word bēn, which means "a prayer, a favor." Bee had been widely connected with the British dialect form, been or bean, by the late eighteenth century, alluding to the gathering of neighbors to work on a particular task to support a neighbor in need: sewing bees, quilting bees, and so on. The only insect that creates foodstuff for humans is the honey bee. A honey bee can fly up to six miles and up to 15 miles per hour, therefore to make one pound of honey, it would have to go 90,000 miles — three times around the world. One ounce of honey is enough to power a bee's journey around the world. Honeybees usually fly between 1 and 6 kilometers, however, they can sometimes go up to 13.5 kilometers. Honeybees have been seen to fly up to 20 kilometers from their colony. Honeybees are not foragers on the doorstep, as evidenced by these findings. The strength, determination, and knowledge of a bee are indicative of Jesus Christ. In Christianity, bee symbolism is all about good and honey analogies. You can discover new meanings for the bee symbol if you concentrate on how it functions. Bees are also symbols of activity, hard work, dedication, and order. Bees are attracted to human sweat in some cases. It sounds disgusting, but it's true. These bees are usually metallic in appearance and smaller than their yellow and black relatives, making them difficult to spot. These bees can sting, although they aren't known for attacking humans.
Adult honey bee colonies usually have three types of adult bees: workers, drones, and a queen. Except during and for a varied duration following buzzing preparations or supersedure, each colony has only one queen. Her principal function is reproduction because she is the only sexually evolved female. She lays fertile as well as unfertilized eggs. The spring and early summer are when queens lay the most eggs. A queen can easily be differentiated from the rest of the colony's members. Her body is generally much longer than that of either the drone or the worker, especially during the egg-laying stage, when her abdomen is greatly extended. When folded, her wings only cover roughly two-thirds of the abdomen, but the wings of both workers and drones nearly reach the tip. The thorax of a queen is slightly larger than that of a worker, and she lacks pollen baskets and wax glands. Her stinger is curved and longer than the worker's, but the barbs are fewer and shorter. The queen can live for several years—up to five—but her average productive life span is two to three years.
A queen's second primary role is to produce pheromones, which act as a social glue, bringing a bee colony together and aiding in the development of individual identity. Her mandibular glands generate one significant pheromone, known as queen substance, but other pheromones are also vital. The colony's quality is mostly determined by the queen's ability to lay eggs and produce chemicals. Her genetic makeup, as well as the genetic makeup of the drones she has mated with, has a considerable impact on the colony's quality, size, and disposition.
Workers are the tiniest of the bees and make up the majority of the colony's population. They are sexually immature females who do not lay eggs in regular hive settings. Workers have specific features that allow them to accomplish all of the hive's tasks, such as brood food glands, smell glands, wax glands, and pollen baskets. During their first few weeks as adults, they clean and polish the cells, feed the brood, care for the queen, remove the trash, handle incoming nectar, make beeswax combs, guard the entrance, and air-condition and ventilate the hive. They forage for nectar, pollen, water, and propolis as field bees.
Before emerging as adults, all three varieties of adult honey bees go through three developmental stages: egg, larva, and pupa. Brood is the collective term for the three stages. While the stages of development are identical, their duration varies. Fertilized eggs become workers or queens, while unfertilized eggs become drones. Female bees' caste development is influenced by nutrition; worker larvae receive less royal jelly and more a mixture of honey and pollen, compared to the queen larvae, which receive large amounts of royal jelly.
In a bee colony, each has its significant job and performs certain duties. I like them because they are extremely hardworking and appear to have a limitless supply of energy!
