When she is about five to seven days old a queen will leave the hive on a mating flight. She will mate with up to twenty drones then return to the hive. This is the only time she will mate.
Worker bees are all female, but never mate.
Drones (males) mate once only, then they die.
yeah they mate and generally they fight for their mates
In that there are male and female bees, yes. The queen and all worker bees are female, and the drones are male, but the drones only mate with a queen, and the queen only mates once in her life, albeit with up to twenty drones. Drones mate only once -- they die afterwards.
as many as it wants..
Male bees are known as drones. They are larger than female worker bees and do not have stingers. Their main role is to mate with the queen bee.
Yes. At some point in her life, the queen bee mates. She will leave the hive where she was born and mate several times over a period of days. Then she carries the sperm of the males within her to fertilize the eggs she lays throughout the rest of her life. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on beekeeping, and it is a very interesting read.
On average once a year
drones: mate with the queens. queen: mate with the drones make new bees. worker: they build , clean , protect hive , care for young and groom queen.
no snails do not mate for life. they can have many mates.
No. Koalas do not mate for life. A dominant male will mate with as many females as he can.
yeah they mate and generally they fight for their mates
They mate and die that's it
in the hive
In that there are male and female bees, yes. The queen and all worker bees are female, and the drones are male, but the drones only mate with a queen, and the queen only mates once in her life, albeit with up to twenty drones. Drones mate only once -- they die afterwards.
No...they do not. They take on sometimes two mates at times.
as many as it wants..
18 times, mate.
1,000,180 times they love it!