The Honey Bees Life Cycle
The Honey Bee Life Cycle
By Calvin Wapasa
Jun 8, 2009
When you are in the beekeeping industry, whether a casual hobbyist or a large commercial producer, you can not be successful if you don't understand the honey bee life cycle.
Honey bees live in a unique way.
It all starts with the egg. The hives queen bee lays an egg in one of the cells constructed for the soul purpose of laying eggs. Once queen has laid the egg and moved on to lay another (during the spring months the queen can lay an average of 1900 eggs daily) the egg is attached to the cell with a mucus strand.
When the egg hatches a larvae emerges. The young larvae are cared for by the nurse bees. The eggs are feed bee bread. The bee bread is mixture of honey plus gland secretions. They are five distinct growth stages the larvae goes …show more content…
In the winter time, a worker bee can live up to one hundred and 40 days old. During the summer months the worker bee is lucky to live for forty days, the short summer life span is because the worker bees are literally worked to death. Worker bees have lots of work. Worker bees called nurse bees care for the worker bees, pollen is gathered by other workers to be made into honey.
The worker bee's duties are wide and varied. Worker bees called nurse bees care for the worker bees, other workers are sent out to gather pollen which is then made into honey. Some workers spend their time capping off honey combs, the queen bee is taken care by the rest of the workers. Worker bees are in charge of starving the unwanted drone bees plus to clean the hive. There can be any were from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand worker bees in a single hive. The worker bees are sterile. When worker bees lay eggs the bee then becomes a drone bee. Workers bees are the bees that people see defending the hive.
For the hive to survive depends on the hive having a healthy queen that is laying eggs. If something happens to the queen the hive will
By Calvin Wapasa
Jun 8, 2009
When you are in the beekeeping industry, whether a casual hobbyist or a large commercial producer, you can not be successful if you don't understand the honey bee life cycle.
Honey bees live in a unique way.
It all starts with the egg. The hives queen bee lays an egg in one of the cells constructed for the soul purpose of laying eggs. Once queen has laid the egg and moved on to lay another (during the spring months the queen can lay an average of 1900 eggs daily) the egg is attached to the cell with a mucus strand.
When the egg hatches a larvae emerges. The young larvae are cared for by the nurse bees. The eggs are feed bee bread. The bee bread is mixture of honey plus gland secretions. They are five distinct growth stages the larvae goes …show more content…
In the winter time, a worker bee can live up to one hundred and 40 days old. During the summer months the worker bee is lucky to live for forty days, the short summer life span is because the worker bees are literally worked to death. Worker bees have lots of work. Worker bees called nurse bees care for the worker bees, pollen is gathered by other workers to be made into honey.
The worker bee's duties are wide and varied. Worker bees called nurse bees care for the worker bees, other workers are sent out to gather pollen which is then made into honey. Some workers spend their time capping off honey combs, the queen bee is taken care by the rest of the workers. Worker bees are in charge of starving the unwanted drone bees plus to clean the hive. There can be any were from twenty thousand to two hundred thousand worker bees in a single hive. The worker bees are sterile. When worker bees lay eggs the bee then becomes a drone bee. Workers bees are the bees that people see defending the hive.
For the hive to survive depends on the hive having a healthy queen that is laying eggs. If something happens to the queen the hive will