![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Males play no part in the colony's organization and only mate with the queens. The eusocial, or truly social, bees live in large colonies consisting of females of two overlapping generations: mothers (queens) and daughters (workers). Such species, called primitively eusocial, form temporary colonies that die out in autumn, and only the fertilized queens survive the winter. In these colonies, the differences in appearance and behavior between workers and queens are scarcely distinguishable. About 1000 species of bees live in small colonies consisting of a queen and a few daughter workers. A few kinds of bees are semisocial-they live in small colonies of two to seven bees of the same generation, one of which is the queen, or principal egg layer the others are worker bees. They are like solitary bees except that several females of the same generation use the same nest, each making her own cells for housing her eggs, larvae, and pupae. ![]()
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