Initially, you were stressed over taking care of your bundle. You got past that and your settlement developed. At that point, you stressed over vermin. …
Queenless Beehives
Sexes and castes
Mark a Queen Bee
Taking everything into account, scanning for a sovereign bumble bee can feel like that once in a while.
Raising Queen Bees
The queen in a hive isn’t generally in control, yet without her, the hive is tossed into tumult. The queen’s pheromones stifle the specialist’s motivation to …
Queen-worker conflict
When a fertile female worker produces drones, a conflict arises between her interests and those of the queen. The worker shares half her genes with …
Queen bee
The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female (gyne) that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, …
Drones
Drones are the largest bees in the hive (except for the queen), at almost twice the size of a worker bee. Note in the picture …
Worker bees
Most of the bees in a hive are female worker bees. At the height of summer when activity in the hive is frantic and work …