Observation Hive

Honey
Nectar Plants
Composition
How To Store
How Bees Make Honey
The Harvest
Extracting
CooKing

Medicinal
Beauty

Beekeeping
History
Art Of Beekeeping
Equipment
Apiary
Stings
Predators
Spring Care
Wintering Bees
Feeding Bees
Products Of The Hive
Swarms
Managing Colonies
Bee Mite

Honey Bees
Social Insect
Queen
Worker
Drone
Virgin
Stings
Products of the Hive

Legal Stuff

Queen

Queen with Female worker bees.



The queen is larger than the other bee.

Her only duties are laying eggs ,
characteristics of the colony,
and the morale of the colony,
(by sharing her pheromones).
The worker bees like to surround her.

It takes 16 days to make a Queen.
Going from egg, larva, pupae to queen bee.
She lives lives about 3 years years,
and is replaced as necessary.



Interesting things we had happen with queens this year.

1/We gave a colony some honey frames and found the queen on the LID.
Put her back quick .

2/We had a nuc being robbed. It looked hopless ,we took it apart . That evening she (the Queen was found in a cluster on front of the next collony), in the rain.
The bees were shook in a box and combined later.

3/We had one fly away when we tryed to cage her.
Did not go home.

4/ A virgin flew into our breeder collony and killed all our cells.
not funny.