Bees don't have a baby stage of life, in the sense that there are no smaller, growing bees.
However, they do go through four stages of development:
- Egg -- laid by the queen, which hatches into a ...
- Larva -- This is equivalent to a butterfly's caterpillar and is the growth stage. It is fed and grows to many times its original size before it becomes a ...
- Pupa -- This is the stage of metamorphosis where the larva turns into an ...
- Adult -- The adult bee emerges from the larval cell fully grown. It does not grow any more.
