How does killer bees reproduce?

Answer 1

the males have sex with the queen and she lays eggs.

Answer 2

Regardless of whether they live alone or in groups, most bees have a similar approach to mating. In nearly every species, a male's only job is to mate with a female. Most male bees do not even have the structures necessary to make wax or carry pollen, so males in social species cannot contribute to the daily work that goes on in the hive. In fact, female honeybees usually force surviving males out of the nest before winter or when food becomes scarce. Usually, a female bee mates with several male bees in midair, gathering all of the sperm she will need in her lifetime -- a few months for a solitary bee, or up to five years for a honeybee. Mating typically happens at a collective mating site, although scientists have not yet discovered how male bees choose a site. In some species, including honeybees, the males die shortly after mating because they leave their endophallus in the female's body, fatally injuring themselves in the process. In other species, males can mate with multiple females. Since females use sperm from several males to fertilize their eggs, this gives the male bees a better chance to father young.

Answer 3

Killer bees like any other species of honey bee, of which there are many, reproduce by swarms or casts. Swarms usually occur during the spring and early summer when resources, such as pollen and nectar, needed for starting and constructing a new hive are readily available. Swarms are formed when the worker bees sense that the population of their hive has grown to more than is comfortable create a future queen by feeding a selected larva a special diet of "royal jelly."

Once the new queen has hatched about half of the worker population and the old queen form the swarm and leave to form a new colony. So, basically one hive is born from the original hive. A colony of honey bees can potentially swarm many many times a year. Thus reproducing the species each time.

Also, the genetics of "killer bees" can be spread by way of killer bee drones mating with queens of other honey bee species. This would of course yield offspring with diluted "killer bee" traits.

Answer 4

The queen bee mates with about a dozen drone (male) bees from other colonies during one or two flights, during the first 10-20 days of her life.

From this point on, her job is to lay eggs and at her peak she can lay 2000-300- eggs per day during the build-up period.

She lays fertilized eggs that turn into workers and unfertilized eggs that turn into drones.

Answer 5

Really? Bees always reproduce, or they would be extinct!

Answer 6

the queen lays the eggs