In the bee society, they still live a matriarchal clan life. Among the members of their big family, there is a queen bee (queen bee), a female bee with reproductive ability, responsible for laying eggs and reproducing, and at the same time "ruling" this big family.
The queen bee's task is to lay eggs. The secreted queen bee hormone will inhibit the ovarian development of worker bees and affect their behavior in the hive.
The duty of the drone is to mate with the queen bee. Drones mate with the queen bee only once in their lives and die within minutes after mating. There are many drones, and a group may be nearly a thousand.
Worker bee is a kind of female bee that lacks reproductive ability. Among the female bees in the bee colony, only the queen bee has reproductive ability. The main tasks of worker bees are to collect food, feed larvae, secrete wax as spleen, secrete serous fluid to clean nests, build hives, protect nests and attack enemies.
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Females and drones live in the same nest, but there are differences in morphology, physiology and division of labor. Female individuals are larger and specialize in spawning and reproduction, while male individuals are smaller than female individuals and specialize in mating and die after mating; Worker bees are small female bees with genital hypoplasia. They specialize in nesting, collecting food, feeding larvae, cleaning the nest room and adjusting the humidity of the nest.
The growth and reproduction of bees;
Virgin queen bees (females) will keep their sperm in their bodies for several years after mating with drones. The queen bee is free to choose whether to produce fertilized eggs or unfertilized eggs. The queen bee gives birth to unfertilized eggs in the drone room and develops into a drone (parthenogenesis). The queen bee produces fertilized eggs in the worker bee house and the queen bee house, and develops into worker bees and queen bees.
All bee larvae were fed with royal jelly for the first 3 days, and worker and drone larvae were fed with honey and pollen after 3 days. Only the larvae in the queen bee's room have been fed with royal jelly and developed into queen bees.
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