Friday, August 6, 2010

Bee Knowledgeable Questions: The Rise of a Queen

We’ve learned about swarming, and how this is the bees’ natural method of making new colonies.  There are always plenty of questions about the bees that are left behind in the hive, the other half of the colony. They cannot survive without a queen to lay eggs, so what happens?
Let’s find the answers to these questions that are raised about the birth and first month of life for a new queen honeybee. What questions do you have?

1) How is a new queen made?

2) If there is more than one new queen, what happens?


3) What happens on a mating flight?

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