enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Drone (bee) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)

    When a drone mates with a queen of the same hive, the resultant queen will have a spotty brood pattern (numerous empty cells on a brood frame) due to the removal of diploid drone larvae by nurse bees (i.e., a fertilized egg with two identical sex genes will develop into a drone instead of a worker). The worker bees remove the inbred brood and ...

  3. Insect social networks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_social_networks

    The drones leave the colony on a nuptial flight or mating flight, find a virgin queen to reproduce with, and then die shortly after. [5] Colony of bees in a nest. Bee and wasp social structure is very similar to that of ants, except all of the members have wings. Both bees and ants communicate effectively using pheromone methods.

  4. Laying worker bee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laying_worker_bee

    Laying worker bee honeycomb. See broad pattern and drone brood in worker cells (caps protruding). This honeycomb is taken from the dying family without the queen. A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs, usually in the absence of a queen bee. Only drones develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with some exceptions ...

  5. Why Bees Do the Waggle Dance - AOL

    www.aol.com/why-bees-waggle-dance-064000416.html

    The other two types of bees in a colony are drones and workers. The drones are male bees whose sole purpose is to mate with a queen. They don’t mate with their own queen but travel to drone ...

  6. Honey bee life cycle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee_life_cycle

    Unlike the worker bees, drones do not sting. Honey bee larvae hatch from eggs in three to four days. They are then fed by worker bees and develop through several stages in hexagonal cells made of beeswax. Cells are capped by worker bees when the larva pupates. Queens and drones are larger than workers, so require larger cells to develop.

  7. Worker bee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_bee

    Worker bees of this variety are responsible for approximately 80% of the world's crop pollination services. [1] Worker bees are the caste of bee that perform most of the fundamental tasks of the hive, and they are by far the most numerous type of bee. [2] They are much smaller than drones or queen bees, with bodies specialized for nectar and ...

  8. Mating yard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating_yard

    A mating yard is a term for an apiary which consists primarily of queen mating nucs and hives which raise drones. [1] [2] A queen bee must mate in order to lay fertilized eggs, which develop into workers and other queens, which are both female. Queens can lay eggs parthenogenetically, but these will always develop into drones (males).

  9. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!