They are both fed as grubs by the nurse bees tending the brood. There is no concept of first or second.
The queen honey bee is approximately 1/3 bigger than a worker bee. no he is the smallest The queen is a female so 'he' can't be smallest.
A male bee is called a drone.
Yes, mason bees sting if they are female even though no, they do not if they are male. Female mason bees sting, less painfully than honey bee or wasp stings, only if they're in serious danger, such as being trapped in clothing or getting purposely caught in the hand. Male mason bees have male genitalia instead of an ovipositor, and therefore they cannot sting.
Bee honey 1 liter is equal to approximately 1.44 kg. However; in fractions 1 liter of bee honey is approximately 1 11/25 kg.
Apis mellifera mellifera -- Western/European honey beeApis mellifera cerana -- Oriental honey beeApis mellifera ligustica -- Italian honey beeApis mellifera iberiensis -- Spanish honey beeApis mellifera scutellata -- African honey bee
If you see a honey bee flying from flower to flower, it will be a worker (infertile female). It will NOT be a male and it will NOT be a queen.
A male honey bee is referred to as a Drone
If the queen fertilizes the egg from her store of sperm, the resulting insect will be female. If she does not fertilize it, it will be male.
Drone is the masculine name of a male bee. Female bees are the worker bees or the queen bee.
A male bee is generally called a drone
Females are the Queen and the worker bees.Males are the drones.
Drone.
A male bee is called a drone and an infertile female bee is called a worker. There will also be one fertile female bee in a colony - the queen.
The unfertilized eggs of the queen bee hatch into male bees, or drones. Worker bees, or females, and female queen bees hatch from fertilized eggs.
the male honey bees mate with the new queen
A queen bee,a worker bee, and a droneIn a colony of honey bees there will be one queen, several hundred drones (male bees), and up to 80,000 workers (infertile females).
Female bees can produce baby bees the males cannot. The female bees are diploid and the male bees are haploid. The antennae of a male bee has thirteen segments, while the antennae of a female has twelve. This is one way in which male and female bees are different. The worker (unfertilized female) honey bee does all the work, both in and out of the hive, whereas the male (drone) bee does no work at all. The bad news is that at the end of the breeding season, the drone is ejected from the hive and dies because he doesn't know how to forage for food.