Honey bees live in highly social colonies where members cooperate to gather food, build shelters, and protect each other. Their social structure involves different castes - a single queen who lays eggs, male drones whose role is to mate with the queen, and thousands of female worker bees who perform all other tasks. Workers have different roles over their lifetime, first performing indoor tasks like building comb and feeding larvae, then transitioning to outdoor tasks like collecting nectar, pollen, and water. To communicate food sources to other workers, scout bees perform dances - circular "round dances" indicate a food source within 100 meters, while elongated "waggle dances" provide directional information for sources further away. Honey bees demonstrate an organized division

1. Social Behaviour in Honey Bees
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2. Features of social behaviour
Social insects always live in a large
population.
Members of colony cooperate with each
others for food ,shelter and protection.
It shows polymorphism.

3. Castes of honey bee
•Queen
•Drones
•Workers

4. The Queen
Only reproductive female
Feeds on Royal Jelly
Mates once
Egg laying is the
only function
Secretes Queen Factor
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5. Drones
Haploid males developed from unfertilized
eggs.
It fertilize queen.
Die shortly after mating.
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They are dependent and begging honey
from the workers

6. Workers
Imperfectly developed
Females from fertilized eggs.
Smaller in size than queen
and drones.
They are responsible for
maintanence and wellfare of
the colony

7. Labor Activities of
Workers
During first half of her life
she attends indoor activities.
•Secretion of royal jelly,bees wax.
•Feeding of brood,queen.
•Building combs, cleaning, ventilating,
cooling, guarding hive, evaporating the
nector and storing the honey.
During second half of her life she performs
outdoor activities
•Collection of nectar, pollen, propolis and
water.

8. Outdoor worker bees
Searchers
Gatherers
Searcher bees searches for
the food where as
gatherer bees gather the
food

9. Worker Bee Dances
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10. Round dance
•The searcher bee run
in circle.
•This dance indicates
that the food source is
less than 100 meters
from the hive

11. Waggle dance
This dance indicates
that the food source
is located more than
100 meter
The searcher runs for a
short distance in straight
line and then moves in a
semicircle.

13. Charachteristic features of Bees
Teaches us a lesson of work and work
with cooperation.
Organized system of division of labour.
A medium size colony consist only one
queen, 300-500 drones and 25000-35000
workers.
Drones dies after mating.
Worker bee posses powerful sting with
poison gland together called poison
apparatus.

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