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When one queen survives in a colony, she will fly out on a sunny, warm day to a "drone congregation area" where she will mate with 12-15 drones. If the weather holds, she may return to the drone congregation area for several days until she is fully mated. The young queen stores the sperm in her spermatheca. She will selectively release sperm from that one mating flight for the remaining 2-7 years of her life.
The young queen has only a limited time to mate. If she is unable to fly for several days because of bad weather and remains unmated, she will become a "drone layer." Drone-laying queens usually mean the death of the colony, because the workers have no fertilized (female) larvae from which to raise a replacement.
A special, rare case of reproduction is thelytoky: the reproduction of female workers or queens by laying worker bees. Thelytoky occurs in the Cape bee, Apis mellifera capensis, and has been found in other strains at very low frequency.
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Do queen bees mate outside the hive?
yeah they mate and generally they fight for their mates
How many times in life will bees mate?
When she is about five to seven days old a queen will leave the hive on a mating flight. She will mate with up to twenty drones then return to the hive. This is the only time she will mate. Worker bees are all female, but never mate. Drones (males) mate once only, then they die.
Are bees sexual creatures?
In that there are male and female bees, yes. The queen and all worker bees are female, and the drones are male, but the drones only mate with a queen, and the queen only mates once in her life, albeit with up to twenty drones. Drones mate only once -- they die afterwards.
Do male or female bees collect pollen?
Females, males are only meant to mate with the queen.
Are worker bees boys?
All worker bees are female. The males are called drones, who do no work in the hive. They only live for one thing: to mate with a new queen.
Do queen bees mate outside the hive?
yeah they mate and generally they fight for their mates
What happens to male bees?
They mate and die that's it
Where do queen honey bees go to mate?
in the hive
How many times in life will bees mate?
When she is about five to seven days old a queen will leave the hive on a mating flight. She will mate with up to twenty drones then return to the hive. This is the only time she will mate. Worker bees are all female, but never mate. Drones (males) mate once only, then they die.
How many different jobs do bees have?
drones: mate with the queens. queen: mate with the drones make new bees. worker: they build , clean , protect hive , care for young and groom queen.
Which type of honey bees does not work?
The drones (male bees) don't work. Their only purpose is to mate with a virgin queen.
What kind of bees do not work?
The above is WRONG, worker bees are the sterile female bees that do do all the work. The bees that do no work in the hive are the male "drone" bees that the hive produces each summer. They have one function only, to mate with new queen bees.
What is the honey bee's job?
the male honey bees mate with the new queen
What purpose do drones serve?
The only purpose of the drone bees is to mate with the queen.
Are bees sexual creatures?
In that there are male and female bees, yes. The queen and all worker bees are female, and the drones are male, but the drones only mate with a queen, and the queen only mates once in her life, albeit with up to twenty drones. Drones mate only once -- they die afterwards.
How does the queen become the queen?
She is born a queen and different from other bees. She will leave her birth nest and mate, then start her own colony. All of the bees there are her children. :)
Do male or female bees collect pollen?
Females, males are only meant to mate with the queen.
