Components of a bee colony

  Bees are typical social insects. A bee colony consists of a queen bee, a small number of drone bees, and a large number of worker bees. The three types of bees each perform their own duties. No individual can survive alone after leaving the group, and the group cannot reproduce normally without any bee type. Let’s take a look at the three types of bees.

Queen bee
  The queen bee is one of the three types of bees. She is a diploid female bee that develops from fertilized eggs and completes her development in a royal platform made of beeswax. The egg stage is about 3 days, the larval stage is about 5 days, and the pupa stage is about 8 days. It takes about 16 days from the fertilized egg to the emergence of a bee. From the beginning to the end, it feeds on royal jelly. Under normal circumstances, there is only one queen bee, whose main function is to lay eggs (including fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs) and to secrete "queen pheromone" to maintain the order of the bee colony. If the bee colony does not have a queen bee for a long time, it will eventually perish.

Drone bees
  Drone is one of the three types of bees. A haploid male bee develops from egg cells and completes its development in a drone cell made of beeswax. The egg stage is about 3 days, the larval stage is about 7 days, and the pupa stage is about 13 days. It takes about 23 days from egg cell to emergence into bee. The larvae can eat royal jelly for the first three days of the stage, and then can only eat ordinary food such as pollen and nectar. The number ranges from hundreds to thousands. The main function is to mate with the newly emerged queen bee, and it will die soon after mating due to the loss of reproductive organs.

Worker bees
  Worker bees are one of the three types of bees. They are diploid female bees that develop from fertilized eggs. They complete their development in worker cells made of beeswax. The egg stage lasts for about 3 days, the larval stage takes about 6 days, and the pupa stage takes about 11 days. It takes about 20 days from fertilized eggs to emergence into bees. The larvae can eat royal jelly for the first three days, and then can only eat ordinary food such as pollen and nectar. The number ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Mainly Responsible for collecting food, building hives, raising larvae, and resisting enemies, etc.