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What is the name for female and male bees?
Male bees are called drones and females are workers.
What are the percent of female workers?
About 95% of the honey bees in a hive are workers (infertile females). The rest are drones (male bees) and just one queen.
Which bees feed the egg-laying bee?
The workers
What are three kinds of bees in a honybee hive?
Queen, drones (male bees), workers (infertile females).
How do male bees protect themselves?
male bees do not have stingers, only the females or workers. they must fly away as there only protection.
Are only the girl bees the workers?
The Queen bee and the workers are all female, the male bees (drones) are only produced in spring and can move form hive to hive in the hope of mating with a new queen. After the mating period is passed the drones are killed off by the workers.
How many eggs hatch into males and female in honey bees?
Around 1% will be drones (male bees). The others will be workers (infertile females).
How many kinds of honey bees in apiaries?
Three. A queen, drones and workers.
How bees live?
Bees live in a colony and their nest is called a hive. There is one queen bee and hives can have up to 80,000 bees. Bees eat nectar and pollen from flowers and plants. The workers make honey, which is feed to the larvae.
What is the Gestation period of bees?
Queen bees have a larval gestation period of 16 days, workers of 21 days, drones of 23 to 25 days.
Do queen bees have a bigger stinger than workers?
They don't need stingers...they have warriors.
What are three kind of bees in a hive?
1. Queen 2. Drones 3. Workers
