Stages in queen bee's life cycle:
* Open cell:
+ Egg: 3 days
+ Larva (4moults): 5 days
*Sealed cell:
+ Larva / Pro-pupa (1 moult): 2 days
+ Pupa(1 moult): 6 days
* From egg to emergence: 16 days
* After emergence:
+ Summer bee: c. 3 years
+ Winter bee: ditto
Functions of the queen:
* Day 1: On hatching, may kill sealed queens (may swarm).
* Day 3 - 5: Orientation flights.
* Week 1 - 3: Mating flights.
* Year 3 - 5:
+ Start laying 2 - 4 days after mating.
+ Produce pheromones (chemical messengers) that inform the colony of her presence and inhibits queen raising.
+ If the queen dies (or is removed) or is old, the workers can produce queen from fertilized eggs.
+ Queens are produced when the colony swarms.
In a hive, there can be multiple queen bees present, but usually only one queen bee will dominate and lay eggs.
Male honey bees, also known as drones, are larger than female honey bees, which are worker bees and queens. Drones do not have stingers and their main role is to mate with the queen. Female worker bees are smaller and have stingers for defense. Queens are the largest bees in the colony and are responsible for laying eggs.
No, bees have different roles at different stages of their life. For example, younger bees typically work inside the hive, caring for the brood and maintaining the hive, while older bees serve as foragers, collecting nectar and pollen.
Plants flower to reproduce and create seeds. The significance of this process in their life cycle is that it allows plants to produce offspring and ensure the continuation of their species. Flowers attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, which help transfer pollen between plants for fertilization. This leads to the formation of seeds, which can then grow into new plants.
A moth has a four-stage life cycle: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult. This is known as complete metamorphosis and is characteristic of many insects, including butterflies.
Queen Latifah plays August in the secret life of bees.
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Queen Latifah
The sting!
you have to exterminate the working bees to get to the queen bees
Queen Latifah.
Welll, it means the cycle of life. You know, pregnancy, how to get pregnant. They use birds and bees as examples.
If a queen dies, then the worker bees will feed royal jelly to some of the larvae and they will turn into queen bees. The first one out will kill all the others, so there will only be one Queen Bee in the hive. This is still a dead end until the queen finds a drone, mates and gets down into the business of egg laying.
Queen bees only sting other queen bees.
No, all queen bees are female, as are all worker bees. The male bees are called drones.
Bees kill their queen because their queen might be to old or the queen might have a diesease