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The queen bee's abdomen is longer than the worker bees surrounding her and also longer than a male bee's. Even so, in a hive of 60,000 to 80,000 honey bees, it is often difficult for beekeepers to find the queen with any speed; for this reason, many queens in non-feral colonies are marked with a light daub of paint on their thorax. [ 13 ]
Queen Bee is the name of six different characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Queen Bee has made limited appearances in media outside comics, with Marina Sirtis voicing the character in Young Justice .
A queen bee in a school setting is sometimes referred to as a school diva or school princess.They are often stereotyped in the media as being beautiful, charismatic, manipulative, popular, and wealthy, often holding positions of high social status, such as being head cheerleader (or being the captain of some other, usually an all-girl, sports team), the Homecoming or Prom Queen (or both). [7]
Queen bee syndrome is a social phenomenon where women in positions of authority or power treat subordinate females worse than males, purely based on gender. It was first defined by three researchers: Graham Staines, Carol Tavris , and Toby E. Jayaratne in 1973.
Queen (marked) and workers of the Africanised honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata. The gyne (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ n /, from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites).
A queen bee brought a swarm to last year's Indy 500. With your help, we named her after a speed queen. Readers helped named the queen bee who brought her swarm to the 2023 Indy 500.
Queen Bee is a 1955 American drama horror film and starring Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland and Lucy Marlow. The film was directed by Ranald MacDougall and produced by Jerry Wald. The screenplay by MacDougall was based upon the 1949 novel The Queen Bee by Edna L. Lee.
Queen Bees and Wannabes [a] is a 2002 self-help book by Rosalind Wiseman. Written for parents of teenage girls, the book focuses on the ways in which girls in high schools form cliques , and on handling patterns of aggressive behavior.