How long does the queen live, about how many eggs can she lay in her lifetime?
2006-06-15 03:35:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
During the course of one queen bee it lays thousands of eggs during its life time which may spread around two years or so.During flower season when more nectar and pollen can be collected from flowers the queen becomes more active and lays more eggs. So during that season the colony becomes really big and the worker bees decide to split and they make queen cells by combining three cells into one and a four five queen cells may be formed and they feed them with royal gelly food. Just before the first new queen bee comes out of the cell the queen be which is already there may fly along with thousands of workers to another location and to build a new hive.Like this one or two more SWARMS may go and thereafter they may not
allow more queens to come out and sometimes two queens may fight and one gets killed and other queen celss are destroyed.
Very rarely when a queen bee is so old and is past egg laying capacity, it may be allowed to live in the same hive but the active young queen bee is the head and lays eggs etc.
2006-06-15 03:49:13 · answer #1 · answered by THATHA75 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A queen bee lays a few other queens in her lifetime. When this happens, there will be a swarming of bees and the new little queen will leave, taking with her enough to start a new colony. By the time she dies, there is another waiting in the wings to take over the exsiting colony.
2006-06-15 03:41:44 · answer #2 · answered by drewsilla01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A new bee is chosen to take over.
"laying fertilized eggs for a few weeks or months, until she runs out of sperm cells and ceases laying fertilized eggs much sooner than the normal 2-3 year life span of queens."
"A good queen of quality stock, well reared with good nutrition and well mated, can lay about 2,000 eggs per day during the spring build-up and live for two or more years. She lays her own weight in eggs every couple of hours and is continuously surrounded by young worker attendants, who meet her every need, giving her feed and disposing of her waste. They also lick her body for the pheromones that are needed for the well being of the colony."
2006-06-15 03:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They live about 2 years.She lays a million eggs in her lifetime. 1500 per day.A worker bee does not differ from a queen bee and can become a queen bee. In this case, a worker bee will replace the queen bee.
2006-06-15 03:47:38 · answer #4 · answered by Jade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the queen has become to old to fulfill the needings of the swarm, the workers feed royal jelly to several eggs, that will become queens. Then the first new queen to be born kills the older queen, kills the remaining unborn queens, and becomes the newone for the swarm. Other times it can happen that a swarm will split with two or more new queens.
2006-06-15 03:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by jcgutierrez65 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THey can live a couple of years depending on the species. When she is getting near the end of her life, she lays a special egg that will be the new queen and then a bunch of male eggs. Then they all fly off, mate and make a new nest.
2006-06-15 03:41:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
bees have a very complex and interesting life cycle .
The queen bee is amazing . .
She is the central being. in a hive of thousands .
she is cared for and pampered throughout her life
.& she lays eggs continuously .
I hope these sites will help you with the details you seek
best of luck
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2006-06-15 04:02:09 · answer #7 · answered by sweet-cookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the worker bees are female, a few of them respond to chemical cues and become queens. They fight to the death and the winner becomes the new queen.
2006-06-15 03:43:14 · answer #8 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
queen bee die when she stops laying killed by a new one i think
2006-06-15 03:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by jassedella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she gets bumped off no retirement no pension na da... crappy job huh
2006-06-15 03:39:10 · answer #10 · answered by Clyde 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋