How a bee is born is shown here.
The queen lays one egg in each cell of the honeycomb.  
The egg is only 1.5 mm large. The queen is able to lay up to 1600 eggs a day.
After 3 days a small worm hatches from the egg: the larva.

The worker bees give good food to the larva so it can grow fast.

 

After another 6 days our larva has become 10 times bigger and is now a “pupa”.
The pupa wraps itself in some kind of silk dress, stops eating and a worker bee closes the cell with a wax lid.  

It gradually starts changing into a bee.  It develops legs and wings.

 

Another few days later the young bee is strong enough to come out of its cell.

It bites the wax layer to pieces and starts its life as a worker bee or a drone.

 

We now know how a bee is born.  

 

We also know that not all bees are equal: we have female worker bees, male drones and we have the queen.

 

This means that each egg produces a worker bee or a drone. 

 

It may also be a queen, but then the larva needs to be given additional food. 

 

Thanks to this extra food the queen will be much larger and live much longer than the other bees.

 

 

 

 

 

All differences are listed once more below.