Sexes and Castes
There are two sexes of honey bee: females (workers and queens); and males (or drones). A caste is a different form, morphologically or reproductively, within the same sex of a species. In sum, there are three types of honey bees: drones, workers and queens; two sexes: male and female; and two female castes: queens and workers.
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