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A DESCRIPTION OF HONEY BEES
THE WORKER
The honey bee is born in an egg from the queen in a wax brood cell. It hatches after three days and turns into larva. Nurse bees feed it royal jelly to keep it alive for the first day, then for six days they feed the larva honey and pollen. Then the larva becomes a pupa. The first pupa is can’t do anything. During the sixteen days as a pupa, it is trapped in a sealed cell, it grows into a worker bee, wich is always a female. Finally ther bee comes out on the 20th day. Workers do everything exept mate and lay eggs. They collect the pollen, make the honey, collect water, heat the hive and keep the hive cool.
The Drone
The drone is a male bee. They are a full adult in twenty-one days, and they are bigger than the workers. Thye have very large eyes and have no stinger. All they do is mate with the queen as they are being fed by the workers. They either die while mating or they are expelled from the hive by winter.
THE QUEEN
Before the death of the queen, she will lay her last egg. This will be the new queen . The nurse bees will then make the eggs food sorce royal jelly. After sixteen days, when the new queen emerges she will kill all of the that live in olther collonies around hers. In the first seven minutes, she will mate with up to 7 drones. After that, the queen will spend her time laying eggs, up to 2000 a day!
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