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**Title:** All About Bees: Stings, Queens, and Colony Life
**Summary:**
* Bees sting when threatened, using a barbed stinger that gets stuck in skin, releasing venom.
* **Queen Bees:**
+ Rarely sting, as their main job is laying eggs (up to 2,000/day).
+ Have a smoother stinger, causing less pain, but can sting multiple times.
+ Typically don't leave the hive, so stings are unlikely.
* **Becoming a Queen:**
+ Worker bees feed select larvae royal jelly, triggering queen development.
+ Multiple queens may emerge, but they fight until only one remains.
* **Colony Life:**
+ **Worker Bees (females):** Perform various tasks, with four life phases: cleaning, feeding, helping, and foraging (the most dangerous phase, lasting ~10 days).
+ **Drones (males):** Primarily mate with the queen and eat from honey reserves.
* **Interesting Facts:**
+ A study found the most painful sting locations are the nostrils and upper lip.
+ Bees have been around for over 130 million years, with their social structure seemingly effective for their survival.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, numbered and in short sentences, without opinions:
**Bee Behavior and Biology**
1. Bees only sting when they feel threatened.
2. Bees release a pheromone when they sting, affecting the behavior of other bees in the area.
3. When a bee stings, its stinger gets stuck in the skin (except for queen bees).
**Queen Bees**
4. Only female bees can sting; male drones do not have stingers.
5. Queen bees have stingers, but they rarely sting due to their role in the hive.
6. Queen bees are larger than worker bees, approximately 1 inch in size.
7. Queen bees can live for up to 5 years, while summer-born worker bees typically live for 6 weeks.
8. Queen bees' stingers are smoother, without barbs, allowing them to sting multiple times.
**Hive Dynamics**
9. A hive can hold between 50,000 to 80,000 honeybees.
10. Worker bees protect the hive and the queen, using their stingers as a defense mechanism.
11. Queen bees are surrounded by worker bees that attend to their needs.
**Royal Jelly and Queen Development**
12. Royal jelly is a superfood produced by nurse bees, containing vitamins, proteins, hormones, and sugars.
13. Royal jelly is fed to select larvae to trigger their development into queens.
14. The process of how royal jelly creates a queen is not fully understood.
**Bee Roles and Lifecycles**
15. Drones (male bees) have one job: to mate with the queen.
16. Worker bees (female bees) perform all other tasks, including foraging, caring for larvae, and building honeycombs.
17. Bees have four job phases in their lifetime: cell cleaning, feeding other bees, handy helper, and foraging.
18. The foraging stage is the most dangerous part of a bee's life and lasts around 10 days.
**Miscellaneous**
19. The most painful area to be stung by a bee is the nostrils, followed by the upper lip (according to an experiment).
20. Bees can leave a "stinky footprint" on flowers to mark them for other bees.