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[HARO]

Are the rest all drones? Or do the workers actually get that close to royalty?
John (serious now!)

 

[j.w]

Thanks addy and she is easy to spot

 

[addy1]

The nurse bees surround the queen, they feed her, don't fly, groom her, baby her. As they grow in age they change jobs. The drones are male, they are born male, in a bigger cell from the time they are born to death they just eat or mate with the queen. The mating happens once in a queens life, if they mate they die. If they don't mate the just eat and live until fall then they are kicked out and die. They do not get near the queen until mating time. Then it is done during flight out of the hive. They mate and drop dead. Out of 60000 bees maybe 1000 are drones.

The workers make the cells, bring in nectar, pollen, removed dead bees, guard the hive................They make the hive right for the queen

Are the rest all drones? Or do the workers actually get that close to royalty?
John (serious now!)

 

[j.w]

Wow what a life! It is quite complex and I feel privileged to gain the info on how they live. I know you mentioned once about how a new queen is chosen. Can you mention it again?

 

[addy1]

Wow what a life! It is quite complex and I feel privileged to gain the info on how they live. I know you mentioned once about how a new queen is chosen. Can you mention it again?

lol first born of queen cells created, she goes around and kills the other queens, that have not made it out of their cells.................First born rules!

 

[talal101]

lol first born of queen cells created, she goes around and kills the other queens, that have not made it out of their cells.................First born rules!

Almost echoes human household hierarchy......

 

[HARO]

And I thought my mother-in-law was a b---- !
John

 

[talal101]

And I thought my mother-in-law was a b---- !
John

shuuuuush, they have ways of knowing everything!!!!!

 

[HARO]

She'll have to settle with me in the next life, then. Fortunately she's no longer around to make MY life a living hell!
John

 

[j.w]

Talal, you don't want to get him started on his mother in law...............it's an awful site to behold

 

[talal101]

Talal, you don't want to get him started on his mother in law...............it's an awful site to behold

EEK! let us move on then!

 

[j.w]

lol first born of queen cells created, she goes around and kills the other queens, that have not made it out of their cells.................First born rules!

Oh my gosh now I remember you saying that before addy. So the only work she ever does is when she is first born and goes around murdering all her sisters..................they should make a horror movie about this one. I bet she leaves all the clean up to the worker bees too

 

[talal101]

Oh my gosh now I remember you saying that before addy. So the only work she ever does is when she is first born and goes around murdering all her sisters..................they should make a horror movie about this one. I bet she leaves all the clean up to the worker bees too

yeesh, when you put it like that it sounds so nasty

 

[addy1]

Oh my gosh now I remember you saying that before addy. So the only work she ever does is when she is first born and goes around murdering all her sisters..................they should make a horror movie about this one. I bet she leaves all the clean up to the worker bees too

She sure does the undertaker worker bees!

 

[addy1]

This is called burr comb, anywhere the bees think there it too much empty space they build comb. It is so neat to see how they make the cells. Each cell is centered on the cell on the other side. We did our inspection today, made sure no spare queens growing, cleaned up the burr comb, checked to see how many frames were drawn out.