How old do honey bees get to be?

Honey bee queens usually live for about three years; workers live for about five to six weeks in the summer, but may live four months or more in winter. Drones can live for up to four months, but they die in the act of mating with a new queen, and whatever age they are they are evicted from the hive by the workers at the end of summer and die of starvation or cold. if the female sting they die