2006-09-21 12:10:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Yes.A bee colony is similiar to most family homes. The queen bee rears the children and does all the work while the King Bee watches TV and drinks beer.
2006-09-21 12:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by freak_oftheindustry 3 · 7⤊ 2⤋
There is no such thing as a King Bee.
Here's some info from Encarta.
In each honey bee hive, there are thousands of female worker bees, hundreds of male drones, but only a single female queen, who is mother to them all. The queen is larger than the drones and workers, especially her abdomen, in which her ovaries are filled with eggs. A queen may lay as many as 1000 eggs a day. The workers provide nursing support for the larvae as well as hive maintenance. The ovaries of worker bees are shrunken and usually cannot produce eggs. Drones exist solely to mate with the queen to produce new individuals for the colony. After mating drones die.
2006-09-21 12:15:03 · answer #2 · answered by Sabina 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No! There are no king bees.
Although the name might imply it, a queen has no control over the hive. Her sole function is to serve as the reproducer; she is an "egg laying machine." 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 called queen substance, that is needed to stop worker bees from laying eggs.
Because the social structure is so complex and fixed, a honeybee colony can be thought of as a single organism, and the individual bees as simply cells of the organism; they cannot survive on their own. The queen is responsible for the reproduction of the "cells", but also is responsible through her own pheromone production for the reproduction of the whole colony. This usually takes place in the spring and is called swarming.
2006-09-21 12:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No king bee. There is a queen, the drones (males) which fertilize the eggs and the workers (females) which gather pollen and make the honey. The queen and the workers are the only ones with stingers too. The drones are fat and stingerless.
2006-09-21 12:31:20 · answer #4 · answered by msuzyq 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read the other day that there is a species called King Bees, But I don't think there is a king like you mean.
2014-01-20 03:38:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, male bees are called drones. They don't do anything but mate with the Queen bee.
sounds like a lot of guys around here
2006-09-21 12:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All male Bees are the Kings as the Queen isn't too fussy.
2006-09-21 12:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by the_sheik_of_sheet_lightning 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no king bee. just worker bees and drones and the queen. the other bees fertilize the queen and take care of the offspring whe produces
2006-09-21 12:13:40 · answer #8 · answered by foxfirevigil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there are only queen bees and the rest are worker bees.
2006-09-21 12:13:38 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, there's no such thing as a king bee.
2006-09-21 12:12:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋