Hive Life Series: THE WORKER BEE 🐝🐝

Hive Life Series: THE WORKER BEE 🐝🐝

The worker bee is a female bee that is not capable of reproducing. Depending on her age she has many different roles throughout her life in the hive. Younger worker bee's will start as cleaners. Their very first responsibility is to clean their own cells to prepare them for the next larvae or to store nectar and pollen. Nurse bee is the next stage, they will nuture and feed the bee larvae, attend to the Queen, then move on to processing incoming nectar aswell as making & capping the nectar. As she grows older she moves on to guarding the...

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Hive Life Series: THE QUEEN BEE 👑🐝

Hive Life Series: THE QUEEN BEE 👑🐝

Amongst the thousands of bee's in each colony one holds a special place in the hive, the Queen. As the only female in her hive capable of mating, her primary job is laying eggs deep into the bottom of honeycomb cells. Fertilized eggs develop into workers who will support the colony. While unfertilized eggs develop into drone honey bees (males). Another important function of the Queen is to produce pheromones that promote stability in the hive. Colony life continues with each hive member doing their tasks because they know a Queen is present.   In this picture you will see...

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