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Jun 27, 2024 · Honeybee, any of a group of insects in the family Apidae that in a broad sense includes all bees that make honey. All honeybees are social insects and live together in nests or hives. There are two honeybee sexes, male and female, and two female castes.
1 hour ago · A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. [1] [2] After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current cosmopolitan distribution of honey bees, introducing multiple subspecies into South America ...
Jun 12, 2024 · Hymenopteran - Social, Parasitic, Pollinators: The queen bee determines the sex of the offspring. Parthenogenesis is particularly common in the Hymenoptera and can occur in three forms: arrhenotoky, thelytoky, and deuterotoky.
3 days ago · The queen bee is a fertile female, who, unlike workers (which are also female), has a fully developed reproductive system. She is larger than her workers, and has a characteristic rounder, longer abdomen. A female egg can become either a queen or a worker bee.
6 days ago · The typical structural hierarchy of a honey bee hive has the queen bee as the “leader” of the hive, where worker bees are her followers and essentially work for her to gather pollen and nectar, which is then carried back to the hive.
Jun 25, 2024 · Western honeybee, (Apis mellifera), economically important species of honeybee (order Hymenoptera) valued for its pollination services and for its production of honey and beeswax. Western honeybees are native to Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East but are kept and have become naturalized.
2 days ago · The quality of the queen is crucial for the survival and growth of honey bee colonies. There have been studies related to raising queens with excellent performance since the invention of artificial queen rearing technologies. However, relatively few studies have been undertaken that evaluate the relationship between queen quality and queen morphology and the expression level of reproduction ...
