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Holy shit ok here goes!

@ Strike Witch: CCD is caused by disruptions in the bees sense, notably in American areas like California, probably because the Americans force the bees to eat only one type of plant and move em around to the next crop (apples to nectarines to oranges to hazelnuts etc) Bees don't like to be strapped to a car on top of a truck and three hundred other hives then moved about forty miles.

@ MoxCo - No idea on workers (I forget) but drones have 16 so workers probably have 32 because a queen gives birth to boys n girls by choice. and fertilisation (males are unfertilised so 16 ((no sperm))

@ Oddey Q1 - A bee would keep collecting honey from the flower it was on then when it realised there where no more bees or it was lost, it would fly around by itself till it died of the cold at night.
Q2 - A honey bee is highly eusocial, and lives in colonies of up to 60,000, a bumble bee lives in vastly smaller colonies and live in holes in the ground, a bee hive will live in a tree naturally.
Q3 - Quite a bit, they collect 300 milligrams a journey, roughly 40 journeys a day, life of four weeks 12,000x28=336,000 milligrams so they would probably eat a few grams a day?

@Ridg3 A bee lives under the rule of the colony, not the queen so their independence is limited to what they know, just like North Koreans.
A female bee (worker) pheromone if I am correct in what I think you mean, smells like well, not a lot, we have no where near enough sensitive nosels!

@OANST - It only works in isolated cases where bees have evolved with these predators, most bees will simply sting intruders because they have no fear of death. Like the banzai!