The queen lays over a thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees do all the other work.
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Chinese calls the queen a king: 蜂王, "bee king". Royal jelly, the food that turns a larva into a queen, is 蜂王浆, widely sold as a health tonic. The other members of the colony are 工蜂 (workers) and 雄蜂 (drones).
