What is the size of a honey bee?

Type: Bug Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 5 years Size: 0.4 to 0.6 in (5 to 15 mm) (Workers) Group name: Colony or Swarm Relative: Size relative to a paper clip. Honeybee hives have long provided humans with honey and beeswax. read more

Quick Answer. Bees can measure up to 1 inch in length. The size of a bee depends on what it does for the hive. The queen is larger than the female worker bee and the male drone bee. read more

The bee farmer maintains (or increases) his bee population by creating an artificial swarm ie taking a colony of honey bees and splitting it in two thereby creating two colonies where originally there was only one. read more