The bee, a social insect

Domestic bees live in communities that can count up to fifty thousand individuals, most of which are worker-bees under the command of a queen-bee.
The queen-bee devotes her life to the laying of eggs. She can lay up to two thousand a day and to this end she is fed exclusively on royal jelly. She only leaves the beehive twice in her life: before beginning her reign, when she is ten days old, for the mating flights and then when she is mature for the swarming.
The worker-bees all share the same genetic heritage, so they are all sisters. They live in perfect harmony, devoting their life to the family. There can be no rivalry among them, or with the queen-bee, since they are sterile and could never hope to become queens. They rear the young, feed the queen, repair the beehive and build new cells to store excess honey and the nectar and pollen