A honeybee's eyes are compound, meaning they are made up of hundreds of simple eyes, each feeding visual information into the honeybee's brain.
The queen bee is the largest type of bee. The smallest type is the worker bee, the nonqueen females. In between the queen and the worker is the drone, the only male type of bee.
Aside from being larger than the other bees, the queen also has sharp, toothed jaws. All other bees are toothless.
The honeybee's stinger, located at the end of its abdomen, is a modified egg-depositing tube attached to a venom sac. This means only worker bees have stingers as the male drone bees are not born with egg tubes and queen bees use those tubes for laying eggs.
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