Interesting Life Cycle Of A Queen Cell

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We look at how bees initiate queen cell development and how the stages of queen cell development progress. 

 A drone bee emerges from the unfertilized egg. Once fully grown, drones start to generate semen and are classified as males.

Gender In A Beehive

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 Genes are essentially selfish, and this is programmed into all life forms.

If A Queen and Worker Are Both Females, How Does That Work?

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Pheromonal Dominance For a worker bee, she cannot lay an egg as long as the queen is around. 

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Swarming

The workers will use this opportunity to make queen cups – special cells that are bigger than worker cells 

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Succession

it is similar to the above but can happen when the hive population is small. 

If a hive loses its queen, there is a very rapid drop in queen pheromones and the workers.

Queen Loss and Emergency Queen Cells

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A queen bee emerge and sting twenty other queen cells to death in a few minutes. She stings into the capping and shows no mercy.

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