Bees kill their own queen in strictly defined biological situations: during supersedure (replacement of the old queen), swarming, rejection of a foreign queen, or when…
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Articles about honey bee queens. Appearance of queen bees, their role in the hive, life cycle, comparison with worker bees and drones
Unlike the short life span of worker bees and drones, the queen bee lives quite a long time, from two to five years under certain…
The queen bee plays a huge role in the bee colony. It can be said that she is the heart of the bee colony, laying…
When a queen bee finds herself in a new colony, the bees have to make a choice and decide her fate. Do they want to…
In this article, we will look at what the queen bee eats. We will answer the question whether she eats honey or not. What the…
If you put your ear to the hive wall in the evening when a colony is about to swarm, you will hear the voices of…
The queen bee occupies the central place in the bee colony, she carries on the colony of bees – this is her life’s work. If…
A beekeeper needs to know how queens are labeled. The marking of queen bees in color by year will help the beekeeper not to get…
Bee queen and ant queen have both common characteristics and differences. Let’s get to the bottom of this issue so we can understand exactly how…
We all know that worker bees can sting. That fact is well known. But can a queen bee sting? Not everyone knows about it. So…