What Does The Queen Bee Do?

Answer 1

The major purpose of the queen is to lay eggs. During April and May she lays day and night, each egg taking about 20 seconds. That’s over 2000 eggs a day, more than her own body weight. The queen mates only once and holds sufficient sperm from the male drones to lay eggs for 3-5 years, incidentally the drone bee dies in the process which must come as a major disappointment for him.

There are 3 types of wax cell used for eggs. In the smallest cells (5mm diameter) she lays fertilised eggs, which in 21 days produce the female worker bees. In larger cells (7mm diameter) unfertilized eggs are laid which in 24 days become the male drone bees, production of offspring not requiring mating is known as parthenogenesis.

A very special cell that hangs vertically downwards is used to produce new queens. A colony producing queen type cells warns the beekeeper of an impending swarm.
A male drone bee has no father but does have a grandfather!
A healthy queen bee is continually emitting pheromones (a bee perfume) that only the bees in the hive can smell.

These pheromone odours tell the bees in the colony that the queen is still with them and all is well in the hive. This chemical pheromone communication is quite sophisticated and the ‘personality’ of a beehive will change if the beekeeper changes an old queen for a young one. Just as the personality of the beekeeper might change if he swaps his old wife for a young one. In this way a beekeeper has some control over the temper and enthusiasm of a colony..

Answer 2

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 food 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 of their own.

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

Answer 3

The queen bee is an adult, mated female in a honeybee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of all the bees in the hive. The queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature. There is normally only one adult, mated queen in a hive.

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Answer 4

The queen bee is an adult, mated female in a honeybee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of all the bees in the hive. The queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature. There is normally only one adult, mated queen in a hive.

Answer 5

The main function of Queen bee is reproduction.

Answer 6

Queen bee's work is to lay younger ones.

Answer 7

queen bee only lays eggs
it does not do any work except laying eggs
it is pratected by some male bees in the bee hive

Answer 8

Queen bee is the person mated woman in a hive, frequently in basic terms one and bigger in comparison to the the remainder of the bee. earlier that, she's in basic terms a regular larvae, chosen, tended , and fed with royal jelly by worker bee till it sexually mature.

Answer 9

THE QUEEN BEE LAYS EGGS EVERYDAY. SHE LAYS ABOUT 1500 EGGS EVERY DAY. SHE LAYS 1 EGG EVERY 58 SECONDS.

Answer 10

tell all the other bees what to do