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.
Within a bee colony only the queen will lay eggs. The worker bees are all female but do not lay eggs. The male bees are called drones.
It used to be thought that the queen bee ruled the hive, rather like human monarchs, though this is not really true. The queen is not the only female in the hive: all worker bees are female, though the queen is the only one that lays eggs.
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.
The queen only mates once in her life and during the winter months she lays few if any eggs, but during the summer she can lay up to 2,000 eggs a day.
Although worker bees and queen bees are all females, the queen bee releases a pheromone which causes the worker bees to be infertile. This is because the queen bee is the only one who can lay eggs in the colony. She wants to keep the workers under her control.
Yes, but only the queen bee can.
The queens role is to reproduce because it is the only female bee in the hive.
yes they do actully the queen only produces they are like bees
Queen bees only sting other queen bees.
Within a bee colony only the queen will lay eggs. The worker bees are all female but do not lay eggs. The male bees are called drones.
No, only a queen
other queen bees
Under normal circumstances, there will only be one queen bee per colony.
It used to be thought that the queen bee ruled the hive, rather like human monarchs, though this is not really true. The queen is not the only female in the hive: all worker bees are female, though the queen is the only one that lays eggs.
They don't. Queen bees don't normally leave the hive, and there is only one in each hive.
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.
There is only 1 queen bee in th hive.