I was reading
about random facts and came across a fact related to Queen Bees and started
reading about Bees and I was surprised and amazed to learn the wonderful details
about bees. They are truly surprising and jaw dropping.
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In
general there will be only one ‘Queen Bee’ for the entire HIVE at any time.
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Queen
bee will only lay eggs. Weight of eggs will be more than the weight of queen
bee itself.
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Queen
bee can decide gender of the egg it is going to lay.
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Depending
on the size of the cell queen bee decides which gender eggs to lay in it.
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Queen
bee can store up to 6 million sperms.
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Once
the queen bee becomes old and won’t be able to lay any more eggs the worker bees
will surround it and start stinging until its dead.
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Young
queen bees of same hive starts fighting with each in order to become the main queen
bee.
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Several
young queen bees fly away from hive in order to survive.
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Worker
bees are female bees.
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Workers
bees are the one’s which will feed the eggs laid by queen bee. They also clean
the hive cells once eggs are fully grown.
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Workers
bees will feed each cell as per the egg in it. Drone cells will get different,
worker cells will get different and queen bee cells will get different honey.
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Worker
bees make sure the hive temperature is always 34.4 degree C to hatch eggs, not
more or less. If more they will cool by collecting water and placing around the
chamber and blow air with their wings and if temperature is less they will form
cluster to increase temperature through body heat.
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Drone
bees are only for mating with queen bee. Mating happens only between drones and
queen bees.
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Drones
will die after mating once with queen bee as their penis get cut after a
successful mating.
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Queen
bee will mate with drones in a separate area far from hive.
All these
types of bees live in single HIVE and will continuously be doing their job. My
goodness!!!
Thanks VV!!
