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Under normal circumstances, no.
The only time a honeybee colony will be without a queen is when a new queen leaves on a mating flight, but she will return to the hive a little while later.
If a queen dies and there are no developing queen brood cells, the colony is in severe trouble because there will be no new eggs being laid.
Without the pheromones from the queen the workers will realize she has gone, and if there are any newly-laid eggs, or veryyoung larvae (no more than two or three days after hatching) they will be fed with royal jelly, thus creating more queens. This would not work with older larvae.
It is possible for worker bees to start laying eggs (after all, they are female), but as they have never been fertilized, any eggs they lay can only develop into drones.
Without a queen, the colony is doomed to die out.
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How do bees work in their hive?
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How do honey bee's make bee hives?
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What is a name given to someone who has bee hives?
A person who has bee hives is called a bee keeper.
What is the behive?
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What is a bee joke?
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Do bee hives stink?
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because it causes the queen bee to gain love for the hive since the colour white is seen pink through the eyes of bee.
Do bumblebee hives fight?
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What is the use of Bee Hive shelf?
to store bee hives.....
How many different kinds of bee live in a hives?
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How do AHB take over EHB hives?
It was hoped the much greater numbers of the European honey bee would swamp out the Africanized honey bee as they naturally cross-bred. The problem has turned out to be that the Africanized honey bee queen has a very slightly shorter pupation period than the European honey bee queen, so she tends to emerge first. A newly-emerged queen will try to kill all the other developing queens before they emerge. This slight imbalance means the Africanized bee has a slight advantage and this is why hives can become Africanized as the queens are replaced.
