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After emerging from the cell as a fully formed insect, the queen bee only really gets bigger during the period immediately after mating when she is well-fed by her workers ready for egg laying.
Insects are constrained by the construction of their body to grow mainly whilst in the flexible form of a larva or grub. As adults they have no scope to stretch their skin to accommodate more body mass as a human does.
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∙ 13y agoThe queen bee isn't exactly "in charge", she's just the single point of failure for the colony, so the other bees protect her. With no queen, there are no new eggs, which means the colony will eventually die off unless a new queen is produced. (Bees can produce a new queen by feeding a larva with a substance called royal jelly, which causes the larva to develop into a fertile queen rather than a sterile worker.)
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∙ 13y agoFirst of all, the queen is the longest bee, not the biggest. She is the longest because she is fed on something called royal jelly, a mixture that comes from the head glands of worker bees.
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∙ 14y agoThe Queen honey bee has a longer abdomen than the other bees in the hive because of all the eggs she is carrying.
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∙ 13y agothe queen bee is bigger then all the other bees for two reasons...1- it eats more and 2- it is always pregnant
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∙ 13y agoBecause it is the only female and main bee.
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∙ 13y agoshe is full of eggs
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Is Queen the biggest?
The queen honey bee is approximately 1/3 bigger than a worker bee. no he is the smallest The queen is a female so 'he' can't be smallest.
What do queen bee do?
A honey bee queen is an egg-laying machine.
Is a queen bee poisonus and why?
No. A honey bee queen can only sting other bees - not people.
What bee is the busiest in the hive and why?
The Queen Bee. She makes all the honey but the Bee's collect it.
What is the honey bee's job?
the male honey bees mate with the new queen
Which are bigger bees or honey bees?
The common bumblebee is usually larger than the honey bee worker, and of comparable size to the honey bee drone.
What kind of big bee flies around plants?
If it is bigger than a honey bee, it will be a bumble bee.
Can a queen bee make honey if no then who makes honey?
No, the worker bees collect flower nectar and make honey from that. The queen bee is an egg factory.
How many babies can a honey bee have?
The queen bee gives birth to all the bee's in the hive and she has millions of sons
How is honey produced?
bee's produce honey what they do is they take the pollen and take it to the beehive and they give the pollen to the Queen (u can see difference because the Queen is bigger and the usual bees) and she makes the honey Beehive: A sort of box full of bees
What do Queen Honey Bee do?
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.
How many eggs dose the queen bee lay?
A queen honey bee can lay between 1000 and 2000 eggs per day.
