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

Worker


A worker takes 21 days to hatch,
from egg to larva to emerging bee.

The workers are all female.
They also all have stingers

The progressive duties of the worker.

Days 1 & 2 of life- Clean cells & keep brood warm.

Days 3 to 5 - Feed older larva.


Female worker bees careing for larva.

Days 6 to 7 of life- Feed younger larva.

Days 12 to 17 of life- Produce wax. Building combs.

Transporting food within the hive.
Days 18 to 21 of life- Soldiers , guarding hive entrance.


Checking each other out at hive enterance.

Days 22 to 34 of life- Foragers, visiting flowers,


Dandilion a big nectar and pollen producer in fall.

collecting nectar, pollen, propolis, & water.


Pollen is carried from flowers to hive on
the back of their legs.
Pollen is food for bees.


Day 35 to35 - End of life.