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2. Queen bee - Wikipedia

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   Queen rearing is the process by which beekeepers raise queen bees from young fertilized worker bee larvae. The most commonly used method is known as the Doolittle method. [16] In the Doolittle method, the beekeeper grafts larvae, which are 24 hours or less of age, into a bar of queen cell cups.

3. Pesticide toxicity to bees - Wikipedia

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   When a bee comes in contact with pesticides while foraging, the bee may die immediately without returning to the hive. In this case, the queen bee, brood, and nurse bees are not contaminated and the colony survives. Alternatively, the bee may come into contact with an insecticide and transport it back to the colony in contaminated pollen or ...

4. Africanized bee - Wikipedia

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   The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).

5. Bee sting - Wikipedia

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   Drone bees, the males, are larger and do not have stingers. The female bees (worker bees and queens) are the only ones that can sting, and their stinger is a modified ovipositor. The queen bee has a barbed but smoother stinger and can, if need be, sting skin-bearing creatures multiple times, but the queen does not leave the hive under normal ...

6. Worker policing - Wikipedia

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   Worker policing is found in honey bees and other hymenopterans including some species of bumblebees, ants and wasps.. Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans (ants, bees, and wasps) whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been laid by other workers rather than those laid by a queen.

7. Bee swarm attacks California family hospitalizing 3 and ... - AOL

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   Bees swarm on a section of flooring that was removed from a building where they had built their hive. Once Steve Baldock of Steve's Beez has collected most of the bees and the queen, he will ...

8. Readers helped named the queen bee who brought her ... - AOL

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   A queen bee brought a swarm to last year's Indy 500. With your help, we named her after a speed queen. ... Harding said, so they will feed the queen a diet of royal jelly (which the worker bees ...

9. Cuckoo bee - Wikipedia

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   In a few cases in which the hosts are social species (e.g., the subgenus Psithyrus of the genus Bombus, which are parasitic bumble bees, and infiltrate nests of non-parasitic species of Bombus), the kleptoparasite remains in the host nest and lays many eggs, sometimes even killing the host queen and replacing her – such species are often ...