unfinished bees nest

o, she will be so pritty.
i am putting so much time into this painting, when i am finally done it will cost like ten thousand one hundred dollar bills. this one may be my favorite yet, since the atlas girl.

i notice my work has been selling at the redbubble site. the hard part is finding who the buyers are (as sales are confidential) in order to express my gratitude. if it was one of you guys, i thank you kindly!

so far i have to fix this lady's hair, adding a flower maybe (?), hands, paint random bees flying about, fix the grass, make shadows on her face and ear. suggestions welcome, as always! there are over 600 bees.

i went off reading about them, to find that only lady bees have a stinger and collect all of the honey, while the gentlemen bees exist solely for mating purposes as they should. also their penises are barbed, so they die directly after mating. sorry dudes. you shouldn't have a barbed penis.
the queen needs up to 17 males, which she mates with for a maximum of 48 hours to supply her with a lifetime of sperm, enough to lay her body weight in eggs each day for years.
once she is vanquished a new sovereign is prepared by feeding one of the larvae a mixture of pre-digested pollen combined with a chemical secreted from a nurse bee's head. the larvae then grows larger than the ordinary bee, and lives years past all others in the hive.
the serum given her, called "royal jelly" has been tested on other animals as well as humans and found to increase fertilization, reverse menopause, speed growth and even improve health and weight in premature babies. scientists have yet to synthesize it.
worker bees have two stomachs. the one that does not lead out their bottom is the honey stomach, which works like a satchel to store nectar. after collection, the forager bee takes nectar back to the house bee, who chews it for several hours, adding an enzyme that helps to evaporate the water away, making the substance sticky and sweeter, before depositing it into a honeycomb chamber. the honey we eat has been regurgitated by at least two bees for processing.
forager bees are the dancers, who shimmy and shake upon returning to their hives in order to communicate their findings to the others. the orientation and fervor of the dance determines where the nectar can be located and how delicious it is. and the taste, carried back by the forager, can be sampled with a kiss.