A small number of bees die in the hive and some by preditors.
Why do the majority die away from the hive, remembering that the queen lays up to 1K eggs per day, these bees emerge, and bees only live 6 weeks during the summer. So we never find hundreds of bees dead in a hive, due to normal lifespan.
This question has nothing to do with disseases or preditors.
2007-09-13 05:18:47 · 12 answers · asked by beeman 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Natural instinct tells them to leave the hive when they are nearing the end of their lifespan.
This is perfectly logical, because if that many dead bees were lying around inside a hive, the hive would be unusable and uninhabitable for the live bees.
Do you keep dead relatives inside your house? Or are their remains outside? Why would it be any different for bees?
2007-09-13 05:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by JimmyNeutron85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They usually die away from the hive because they spend most
of their time outside the hive during the latter part of their lives. For the first week or so of their adult life they work inside the hive, and take only brief flights outside. Once they
begin foraging for nectar and pollen they spend the rest of
their lives doing this, returning to the hive at night,for brief
periods of unloading or for rest during the day. Some of them
do die in the hive, but just because of the relative amount of
time spent outside they are more likely to die there. Dead
bees in the hive are soon carried out by other workers.
2007-09-13 14:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bees, unlike humans don't have a "self preservation" instinct. their breeding, DNA, everything is for the preservation of the hive and the Queen. During the winter, they group around the Queen to keep her warm, the outer layers freeze and fall off, but are replaced with other bees from the hive. They honey produced during the spring, summer and fall provide the food for the winter.
2007-09-13 12:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instinct. It would not be good for a bee that's ill to infect the whole hive. So, when a bee is not feeling well, it'll leave the hive and not come back.
2007-09-13 14:40:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After a bees stings someone or something, it dies. Maybe they just work themselves to death gathering food for all the others. I suppose it nature's way of keeping the hive clean.
2007-09-13 12:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by Frosty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe they are moved by live bees, and i would think the conditions away from the hive are way more dangerous
2007-09-13 12:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but it must keep a clean hive!
2007-09-13 12:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its upsetting to the other bees
2007-09-13 13:25:46 · answer #8 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, you would have to be a bee to find out init!
2007-09-14 13:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't on the trash truck route'
2007-09-15 19:44:37 · answer #10 · answered by Satch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋