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Under normal circumstances, no.
The only time a honeybee colony will be without a queen is when a new queen leaves on a mating flight, but she will return to the hive a little while later.
If a queen dies and there are no developing queen brood cells, the colony is in severe trouble because there will be no new eggs being laid.
Without the pheromones from the queen the workers will realize she has gone, and if there are any newly-laid eggs, or veryyoung larvae (no more than two or three days after hatching) they will be fed with royal jelly, thus creating more queens. This would not work with older larvae.
It is possible for worker bees to start laying eggs (after all, they are female), but as they have never been fertilized, any eggs they lay can only develop into drones.
Without a queen, the colony is doomed to die out.
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What is the verb for bee?
The feminine of a bee is a worker bee. A male bee is a drone. All hives have one queen bee in charge.
What is a bee joke?
A bee joke: Why was the bee so itchy? He had hives.
What is a collection of bee hives?
The land where a collection of beehives are kept is an apiary.
What is a Queen bee called?
A queen bee is the dominant female bee in a colony. She is responsible for laying eggs and maintaining the hive's population.
What animal live in hive?
Drones, a queen, and workers are the bees that live in a hive. The drone is a male whose purpose is to mate with the queen or to perish during the winter in the event of not realizing the latter agenda. Worker bees operate as non-queen females whose responsibilities include caring for broods, foraging, and laying eggs which develop into drones or in females in special instances of queen-less hives.
How do honey bee's make bee hives?
They first find bees to help them and then they find a queen bee the queen lays the eggs to make the hives while some bees make the hive and some comfort the queen bee.
What is the verb for bee?
The feminine of a bee is a worker bee. A male bee is a drone. All hives have one queen bee in charge.
What is a name given to someone who has bee hives?
A person who has bee hives is called a bee keeper.
What is the behive?
most bees live in hives. These are either made by the bees themselves in trees or on the ground, or by people. Some hives have lots of female worker bees, a few male drones and one queen bee who is the most important bee
What is a bee joke?
A bee joke: Why was the bee so itchy? He had hives.
Do bee hives stink?
No.
What is a collection of bee hives?
The land where a collection of beehives are kept is an apiary.
Why do zoo keepers use white paint and aluminum lids on their bee hives?
because it causes the queen bee to gain love for the hive since the colour white is seen pink through the eyes of bee.
Do bumblebee hives fight?
it is possable that bee hives fight most do.
What are types of bee?
In the US it is mainly Langstroth hives, named after Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth who invented them. In the UK the main hives in use are, British National, WBC, Commercial, Langstroth, Dadant and Smith hives. There are other lesser used hives such as Warre and Top Bar etc.
What is the use of Bee Hive shelf?
to store bee hives.....
How many different kinds of bee live in a hives?
In a honey bee hive there is one queen, between 20,000 and 60,000 workers (all female) and up to 300 drones (males).
