Bees_In_House_Walls

Bees In House Walls Life Cycle and Habits The Queen The queen is the only female in the colony capable of laying fertilized eggs. She is extremely important, because without her no young bees would be replacing the old bees as they die. The rest of the bees pay a lot of attention to her. There is only one queen to each bee colony, and she may live two to five years. She must be fed by the others in the colony, and she can do none of the rest of the chores that need to be accomplished to make honey and keep a clean nest. The Drone Drones are male bees within the colony. There may be several hundred drones in the spring and summer, but they are all eliminated in the fall and winter when their services are no longer wanted. The drone develops from unfertilized eggs and exists only to fertilize or mate with young queens. He typically lives 40 to 50 days, and is bigger than either the queen or workers. The Worker The majority of bees in colony are worker bees. They perform most of the functions bees are known for, such as making honey bees, days, colony, workers, queen, honey, young, worker, rest, live, eggs, drones, winter, summer, several, queens, perform, others, nest, longer, field, fertilized, egg, each, drone, cycle, constructed, comb, cells, brood, bee, 40, younger, years, year, without