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the queen bee is the one that lays the eggs and so if she survives the colony can continue.
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What is the name for female and male bees?
Male bees are called drones and females are workers.
What are three kinds of bees in a honybee hive?
Queen, drones (male bees), workers (infertile females).
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.
How many kinds of honey bees in apiaries?
Three. A queen, drones and workers.
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.
When a queen bee dies what happens?
If a queen bee dies, the whole colony will die out soon, because there will be no more production of royal jelly. Royal jelly are needed for potential new queen. Queen bees are the only bees that can produces new drones and workers bees.
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 are three kind of bees in a hive?
1. Queen 2. Drones 3. Workers
Do queen bees have a bigger stinger than workers?
They don't need stingers...they have warriors.
Why don't worker bees lay eggs?
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.
Does the new queen of bees go and make a new hive?
Actually it is the old queen that goes with a swarm, leaving developing queen larvae and young house bees (workers) in the old hive to start a new colony.
The worker bees feed a kind of food to the queen larvae called?
The food given to the queen by the workers is a secretion of the workers' hyperpharyngeal glands. It is called 'bee milk' or 'royal jelly'
