15 days
From the egg being laid to the new queen emerging from the pupal cell is 16 days.
They come from eggs that the bees lay and whatever egg is chosen to be a queen bee gets fed a special chemical such as royal jelly. Once they hatch you will know which bee that hatched will be your queen bee by its abdomen.
The queen bee of a hive does not leave the nest by any means. Without a queen bee, a hive simply cannot exist. If one were to remove the queen bee, it would be a matter of hours before the hive is in complete chaos. In the event the queen bee is about to die, there is already a "lady-in-waiting" to take her place. In simpler terms, the queen cannot be persuaded to leave. It is simply not in their design.
just a queen bee
The only thing a queen bee does is lay eggs. She does no other work in the hive. She doesn't even feed herself, she is fed and cleaned by worker bees.
From the egg being laid to the new queen emerging from the pupal cell is 16 days.
They come from eggs that the bees lay and whatever egg is chosen to be a queen bee gets fed a special chemical such as royal jelly. Once they hatch you will know which bee that hatched will be your queen bee by its abdomen.
The queen bee of a hive does not leave the nest by any means. Without a queen bee, a hive simply cannot exist. If one were to remove the queen bee, it would be a matter of hours before the hive is in complete chaos. In the event the queen bee is about to die, there is already a "lady-in-waiting" to take her place. In simpler terms, the queen cannot be persuaded to leave. It is simply not in their design.
just a queen bee
There is no "King Bee" The leader of a Bee Colony would be the Queen. And the average life expectancy would depend on the specific species of bee.
a matter of size
A honey bee queen can live for four or five years but beekeepers usually replace them after two years.
A honey bee queen is an egg-laying machine.
When the queen bee dies, her daughter becomes the new queen.
Each species of bee has its own queen.
Male bees (drones) come from unfertilized eggs laid by the queen bee. Fertilized eggs produce females (workers or new queens).
The reason that they have a queen bee is that the queen is the only one that makes the baby bees in the entire bee hive.