An unmated queen is not able to lay fertilized eggs, so any eggs she does lay will develop into drones. This will usually mean the death of the colony because there will be no new workers produced to forage for food.
Before it mates the queen bee has wings, but when it mates the wings fall off. The bee it has mated with flies away to never be seen or dies.
The queen is the only female in the colony that has mated and only she can lay fertile eggs. Without a queen the colony is destined to die out within a generation.
The have Conflict And Then The Winner Becomes The New Queen.
A well-mated and well-fed queen of quality stock can lay about 2,000 eggs per day.
a queen bee never stops producing, To ensure the colony's survival, the worker bees will work to have a replacement ready for the queen if she is old or is not producing an adequate amount of eggs. A virgin queen bee will fight other virgin queen bee till she becomes the surviving one. Then she will mate and become the new queen bee.
A queen honey bee can live anything up to five years and she will lay eggs right up to her death. If the queen's egg laying declines too much for the colony, they will replace her. Queens of other species of bee (bumble bee, solitary bees and so on) are hatched and mated in the autumn/fall, hibernate over the winter, then will live until the end of the following summer.
Drone bees are male bees whose primary role is to mate with the queen bee. They do not gather food or perform other tasks like female worker bees. Once they have mated with a queen, drone bees usually die soon after.
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A queen bee is the dominant female bee in a colony. She is responsible for laying eggs and maintaining the hive's population.
When the queen leaves her nursery nest she takes a group of workers with her, this is a swarm, they then form their own colony.
A honey bee queen is an egg-laying machine.