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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 ]
A worker bee is any female bee that lacks the reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee and carries out the majority of tasks needed for the functioning of the hive. While worker bees are present in all eusocial bee species, the term is rarely used (outside of scientific literature) for bees other than honey bees , particularly the ...
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.
These worker-bee pups can go from couch potato to the daily grind in pretty much the blink of an eye. Many pups perform a whole bunch of different jobs on a daily basis.
The queen is the only bee in a colony that has fully developed ovaries; she secretes a pheromone that suppresses the normal development of ovaries in all of her workers. [ 97 ] Beekeepers use the ability of the bees to produce new queens to increase their colonies in a procedure called splitting a colony . [ 98 ]
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 ...
It's official: The queen bee who brought her colony to last year's Indy 500 has a name. Janet Guthbee, now living at an Indianapolis-area farm, is named after Janet Guthrie, the first woman driver ...
The Queen's official job description has been changed for the first time in over ten years—details here. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...