Drones live within 24 days and, unlike their sisters, have no needle reason to lose their fight for life.
Interestingly, besides all these wonders, bees can communicate with each other extremely well. Communication is done by sound but also through body movements. For example when you get a bee in an area with many flowers she announced sisters by a flight in a figure 8 showing them through posture and direction you have to fly.
Bee keeping, activity actually brings a lot of benefits, is practiced since ancient times, wax is used especially in making candles and honey being used for consumption. They are used to cure diseases but also but also in industry.
Number is approximately 20,000 known species but probably a lot yet to be discovered.
Many species of bees are poorly known. The smallest bee is the dwarf (Trigona minima) with a length of about 2.1 mm (5 / 64 “). The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, which can reach a length of 39 mm (1.5″). Most common types of bees in the northern hemisphere are species of Halictidae, or sweat bees attracted, some small bees are often wrongly considered wasps or flies. The best known bee species is the European bee.