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What are the three kinds of honeybee?
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).
What is the cause of laying worker bees?
If a colony of bees goes queenless and the bees are unable to raise a new queen, some of the workers will develop the internal organs necessary to lay eggs but the eggs will be infertile and end up as drones which means that the colony will eventually die. There is no way of recovering from this. If you try to introduce a new queen, the laying workers will kill her.
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.
Why are only queen bees able to reproduce?
Although worker bees are also female, they are sterile because they don't mate with drones. Normally a queen emits a pheromone which inhibits workers from egg-laying. If the queen dies, after a few days some workers may start to lay eggs, but these can only hatch into drones.
How do you reproduce with an ant?
It cannot be done without a queen ant and male ants. The queen lays all the eggs. The workers and soldiers are sterile.
What happens to the hive when the queen bee dies?
If the queen dies suddenly, the workers will select one or more recently-laid eggs or very young larvae and feed them with royal jelly (a secretion of the workers' hyperpharyingeal glands) and build queen cells around them. These larvae then develop into new queens.When the first one emerges from her pupal cell she will seek out the other queen cells and sting through them to kill the other queens. A few days later she will go out on her mating flight, and on her return she will start egg laying for the colony.
What do queen bee do?
A honey bee queen is an egg-laying machine.
Does a queen bee sting workers?
No, the queen won't sting workers. The only thing a queen will directly attack is another queen.
What is a drone layer?
When a queen lays an egg she chooses whether or not to ferilize it from her store of sperm in the spermetheca. If the egg is fertilized the developing bee will be female (queen or worker) and if not it will be male (drone). If the queen runs out of sperm, either through age or because she was not properly mated in the first place, she cannot fertilize the eggs so is only capable of producing unfertilized drone eggs.A variation of this is the laying worker. If a colony becomes queenless for any reason and the workers don't succeed in raising another queen to replace her, the lack of 'queen substance' (pheromones from the queen) will cause the workers' ovaries to start developing. Eventually some will start laying eggs but because workers never mate these eggs cannot be fertilized and the result is more drones.
What type of animal is a worker?
Social insects that live in colonies have three types of members: the queen, the drones, and the workers. Workers are born from asexual eggs produced by the queen, so that the workers are each other's clones, and work for the benefit of the colony without ever reproducing.
Hornet queen bee dies what happens to the other bees?
First, hornets are not bees, they are a variety of wasp.If a hornet colony loses its queen there will be no-one laying eggs, so the colony will eventually die out as the older workers are not being replaced.
Can there be two queen bees in a hive?
Normally, no, the bees will only tolerate one queen in the hive. However, occasionally where the old queen is getting to the end of her laying life, the workers will produce a queen cell and hatch off a new queen. Mother and daughter queens can be seen together for a short period before the old queen disappears. This process is known as supercedure.
