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There is no difference between the eggs, it's all down to feeding.
All larvae are fed royal jelly -- a secretion of the mandibular and hyperpharyngeal glands of worker bees -- for the first three days after they hatch from the egg. After this period worker bee larvae are weaned on to a mixture of honey, pollen and a steadily reducing amount of royal jelly and they are fed on this until they pupate.
Larvae intended to become queens are fed on pure royal jelly right up to pupation. It is this different diet that makes the larva develop into a queen.
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∙ 11y agoYes because all workers are female. However they have never mated so they can only lay unfertilized eggs which will develop into drones (males).
Under normal circumstances, pheromones from the queen suppress the ovaries in the workers, so worker eggs are unusual and in any case will be removed from the cells by other workers before they have a chance to develop.
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∙ 14y agoIn every colony of honey bees, there will be just one queen and she can lay over 1000 eggs per day which will hatch into fully grown worker bees after 21 days.
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How do honeybees have babies?
Production of fertilized and non-fertilized eggs is the way that honeybees have babies. The insects in question (Apis spp) may engage in asexual reproduction through females, as queens and as workers, virgin-birthing eggs that can do work around the hive or nest but not produce viable offspring. All queens in all honeybee colonies additionally will produce future queens as well as female workers and male drones.
What is the difference between the eggs of Queen bee and worker bee?
Firstly, both the queen and the workers are female. Only the drones are male. The queen is larger than the workers. She has been fertilized and is carrying sperm in order to fertilize eggs as she lays them (up to 2,000 eggs a day). Workers, although female, cannot lay eggs if there is a queen in the hive. Should the queen die, workers can start to lay eggs, but as they have not been fertilized these eggs can only develop into drones, so unless there is a developing queen cell the colony will eventually die out when there are insufficient workers to maintain the hive. A queen never leaves the hive other than to mate, or in a swarm, so she does not collect food. In fact, the workers have to feed her and take care of all her needs.
What are the types of bees tha live in a hive?
In a honey bee hive there is one queen, who lays all the eggs; from none (in winter) up to about 300 (in summer) drones (males) whose only purpose in life is to mate with new queens; and between 20,000 and 60,000 workers (all sterile females) who do all the tasks in the hive and all of the foraging for honey and pollen.
In a normal hive what types of bees are there?
In a honey bee hive there is one queen, who lays all the eggs; from none (in winter) up to about 300 (in summer) drones (males) whose only purpose in life is to mate with new queens; and between 20,000 and 60,000 workers (all sterile females) who do all the tasks in the hive and all of the foraging for honey and pollen.
What are the 3 members of the honey bee?
The three types of honey bee in the colony are * The queen. She lays all the eggs and does no other work. There is only one queen in a colony. * The drone. The drones are the males, their only purpose is to mate with new queens, and they do no work in the hive. In winter there are no drones in the colony; in summer there could be up to 300. * The workers. These are all female, but their ability to lay eggs is suppressed by pheromones from the queen. As workers have never mated, they could only produce drone eggs anyway. The workers do all tasks in the hive and all the foraging for nectar and pollen. The average colony has between 20,000 and 50,000 workers.
Are worker bees driven out of the hive in the autumn?
The queen doesn't, but the workers do. They throw the drones out of the hive to die at the end of the season. It may seem hard, but the queen's egg laying is much reduced, and there will be no new queens until the next season. The drones do no work in the hive -- they are only there to mate with new queens. They would just be a drain on valuable food resources during the winter, and the queen can lay new drone eggs in the spring.
Which bee feed the egg-laying bee and look after young?
The queen bee is responsible for laying eggs. Worker bees feed the young bees and look after them until they are able to take their place in the hive.
Wear wear will a queen bee stay in the winter?
A queen honey bee will stay in the hive. Honey bees do not hibernate, but will cluster together in the hive to keep warm. Bumble bee workers and drones, and the older queens die when the cold weather arrives, and the young queens find a sheltered place and hibernate through the winter.
Will your bees ever make a queen if you added fresh brood to the weak hive?
Not if they already have a queen, but if there is no queen they will draw out queen cells from eggs in the frame. If there are no eggs, they will select very young larvae that are no more than three days from hatching. If all larvae are older than this they bees can't make queens. In an emergency, if a hive is suspected to be queenless, a beekeeper will often transfer a brood frame with eggs from another hive to get the colony going again.
What do the male bees do around the hive?
In a word: nothing. Male bees (drones) have only one purpose in life, to mate with new queens and will be out of the hive looking for queens whenever the weather is suitable. They do no work at all within the hive. For this reason, at the end of the summer all of the drones are thrown out of the hive to die so they are not a drain on precious food resources during the winter. In the spring the queen will start laying new drone eggs for that season's drones.
What would happen to the bee colony if there was no queen?
Not necessarily. If the queen dies suddenly, the workers will build queen cells and transfer recently-laid eggs or very young larvae to them and will feed them on royal jelly. This will make them develop into new queens. They have about six days to do this as the egg hatches three days after it is laid, and all larvae are fed royal jelly for the first three days, but only queens are fed royal jelly after that time. If the queen had run out of sperm before dying and had become what is known as a 'drone layer' (unfertilized eggs develop into males) then this option is not available to the workers. Workers bees are all females but the queen's pheromones suppress their ability to produce eggs. Once the queen has gone these pheromones disappear and workers can start to lay eggs. But the workers have never mated, so can only lay unfertilized eggs which will develop into males. If the colony is unable to raise a replacement queen it is doomed to die out, though a beekeeper who spots the situation can produce a queen from another hive and introduce her to the queenless hive to save it.
How do bees decide on a queen?
There can only be one queen in a hive. If a hive becomes too crowded, the workers will prepare several queen brood cells and the queen will lay an egg in each. The workers will cover the egg with royal jelly -- this is what makes the difference between the larva developing into a queen rather than a worker. After this, the queen and roughly half of the workers will leave the hive and look for somewhere else to form a hive. This is a swarm. Eventually one of the queen cells will break open and a new queen will emerge. The first thing she will do is search out the other queen cells and sting them to kill the other developing queens. If two queens should emerge at the same time, they will fight until one is dead. A few days later, the new queen will leave the hive on a mating flight, followed by the drones. After mating she will return to the hive and not leave it again unless with another swarm.
