Under normal circumstances, one.
When the queen is getting old the workers will build queen cells and produce new queens. The first one to hatch will go round the other queen cells and sting through the cell wall to kill the developing queen inside. For a short time there will then be two queens and it may be possible to spot both the mother and daughter queens on the combs. Once the daughter queen is laying, the old queen is killed by the workers. This is a process known as supersedure.
When preparing to swarm, the workers will again build queen cells, but before the new queens hatch off, the old queen and roughly half the colony will leave, so for a short time until one of the queens hatch there will be no queen in the colony.
The queens role is to reproduce because it is the only female bee in the hive.
A queen honey bee will stay in the hive. Honey bees do not hibernate, but will cluster together in the hive to keep warm. Bumble bee workers and drones, and the older queens die when the cold weather arrives, and the young queens find a sheltered place and hibernate through the winter.
Because the hive is always at work along with taking care of the queen bee.
The Bee-Hive - journal - was created in 1861.
Only one queen to a hive. If two queens are born at the same time, they will fight until one is dead.
There is only 1 queen bee in th hive.
Bee's range into qite a large population, but in one bee hive they are know to have at least about 500-1,500 bee's in one hive.
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Do you mean the bee hive? 1. I went down to plant flowers when I saw a bee hive.
A bee hive is "une ruche" (feminine) in French.
The queen bee gives birth to all the bee's in the hive and she has millions of sons
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