How long do honey bees live -?

Answer 1

28 to 35 days. The queens can live up to 2 years.

So, how long do honey bees live? Do beekeepers need to buy new bees every few months?

Answer: Absolutely not! This is one of the great things about honey bees. Unlike other animals (cows, goats, sheep, etc.) which eventually die, the honey bee colony really never dies! Well almost never - in the winter, about 5% of colonies may expire. In the spring, the beekeeper simply catches swarms that leave the good, strong hives that survived the winter - free of charge!

Good beekeepers can keep their bees alive for many years by simply catching those wayward swarms or splitting good hives to replace any losses. Effectively, a beekeeper may never spend money on bees or queens - once the bee business is established.

You have to think of the honey bees' colony - with its queen, drones, and workers - as a single living creature. On its own, a single bee (even a cluster of a hundred bees) is useless for producing honey or pollinating flowers. It takes the team work of the entire hive to make honey. This means a queen (which might live for several years), thousands of worker honey bees (which might live for several months, but continually are being replaced by the queen - she lays thousands of eggs every day!), and some drones to keep the whole enterprise happy. The colony has living organs - a mouth to feed itself (the forager bees); lungs (the bees that fan fresh air into the hive); a reproductive system (the swarms that fly out each spring); growth tissues (the new wax and new honey stored in 'fat cells' of the hive).... You can see, the the hive is alive and it truly may live for many, many years. Remember WE NEED honey bees to pollenate all of the produce that we eat and the flowers that we grow or they would die! Honey bees are NOT yellow jackets or wasps. Honey bees are an integral part of our ecosystem & are greatly affected by air pollution & all of the other changes in our environment. WHETHER YOU EAT HONEY OR NOT -- WE COULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT HONEY BEES.
Till they die.

Honey bees only live for about six weeks in the summer, as they literally work themselves to death. However, in the winter they can live for as long as six months as they have much less work to do.

Answer 2

A queen honey bee will live for up to five years.

Drones (males) can live for up to four months, but will die after mating at whatever age, and any drones in the hive at the end of summer will be evicted by the workers and will die.

Worker bees can live for about four months over the winter, but during the summer will only live for around six weeks.

Answer 3

3 months

Answer 4

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