The honey bee uses the most complex symbolic language of any animal on earth, outside of the primate family.
If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special diet of a food called "royal jelly.
If you get stung, the bee's stinger gets hooked into your skin, and while the bee tries to flee, part of its body tears off, causing it to die.
The drones die in the act of mating. The queen flies out in search of mates and the drones swarm around and compete for the chance to mate with their queen.