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Queen Bee is a 1955 American film starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer, and Barry Sullivan. 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.
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
As the first queen bee to hatch will kill rival hatchlings, the eggs are covered with a small plastic cage. This prevents a newly hatched queen from approaching the other eggs, and thus harming them. This allows a beekeeper to return to the hive to find a large number of newly hatched queen bees.
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 ...
In January 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture approved the world's first vaccine for bees. The vaccine protects the bees from foulbrood and is dispensed by adding an inactive version of the bacteria to royal jelly consumed by worker bees, who feed the queen bee, who in turn passes immunity to her offspring.
Two sons of a king went out to seek their fortunes, but fell into disorderly ways. The third and youngest son, Simpleton, went out to find them, but they mocked him.They travelled on, and Simpleton prevented his brothers from destroying an ant hill, killing some ducks, and suffocating a bee hive with smoke.