Honey bees develop from flightless, to flying, to foraging individuals that can carry loads equaling their own weight in flight within several weeks of adult life. Typically bees that have better flight and foraging performance are both older and more experienced individuals. The increase in foraging performance could be due to both age-related changes (age hypothesis) and experience-related changes (experience hypothesis). To test the age and experience hypotheses, we compared foraging and flight performance of experimentally obtained bees of different ages with similar foraging experience and bees of similar ages with different foraging experience.