Here's a picture we took last year at one of our hives. It's a drone (a male bee) emerging into the world. Isn't he just so fuzzy!? How fuzzy a bee is helps the beekeeper know how old he/she is. The fuzzier, the younger he/she is.
A worker bee (female with smaller body, head and eyes) is helping the drone out of his comb cell. If you look close you can see her actually chewing the wax off and the drone's head just beginning to poke out. One way you can tell drones apart is that they have bigger squarish bodies and big eyes that almost meet at the top of their heads. All the bees in the background are workers. The bumps of wax above and to the left of the young drone whose emerging are other drones who have not yet "hatched".
Pretty cool, eh? AND SO FUZZY!
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