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A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female (gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the beehive. [1] Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature.
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 refers to 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. [1][2] The term "queen bee" is often used derogatorily and is applied to women ...
Unlike a bumble bee colony or a paper wasp colony, the life of a honey bee colony is perennial.The three types of honey bees in a hive are: queens (egg-producers), workers (non-reproducing females), and drones (males whose main duty is to find and mate with a queen).
Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens. [1] It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of nurse bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony, regardless of sex or caste. [2] Queen larva in a cell on a frame with bees. During the process of creating new queens, the workers construct ...
The worker bees huddle around the queen bee at the center of the cluster, shivering to keep the center between 27 °C (81 °F) at the start of winter (during the broodless period) and 34 °C (93 °F) once the queen resumes laying. The worker bees rotate through the cluster from the outside to the inside so that no bee gets too cold.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have one of the most complex pheromonal communication systems found in nature, possessing 15 known glands that produce an array of compounds. [1] [2] These chemical messengers secreted by a queen, drone, worker bee or laying worker bee to elicit a response in other bees. The chemical messages are received by the bee ...
In honey bees, the genetics of offspring can best be controlled by artificially inseminating (referred to in beekeeping as "instrumental insemination") a queen with drones collected from a single hive, where the drones' mother is known. In the natural mating process, a queen mates with multiple drones, [2] which may not come from the same hive ...