All about Queen bees

the queen bee she is by far the most important bee in the hive she has only one job to do and that is to lay eggs and to say that she excels at her job is an understatement a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs a day this is her laying an egg now she'll stick her abdomen down into the cell lay an egg at the

bottom and then she'll move on to the next cell as you can see all the other bees are attending to her they're very adamant and and surrounding her there what they do is they they take care of her every need queen bee doesn't even eat on her own the other bees will feed her clean her

remove her waist everything that she needs they'll take care of they will attend to her

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so the first thing that she'll do is stick her head down in and examine the hole just making sure that there's not another egg that it's properly cleaned and it's ready to accept a larva then she'll stick her abdomen down in there and get herself positioned just right stretch out find the proper positioning and then she'll lay her egg

these are newly laid eggs and it takes about three days for the eggs to hatch then they become larvas about 16 days later they'll grow into adult bees and they'll hatch out of their little cocoons the queen can store semen inside her abdomen and use it as necessary to fertilize eggs when an egg is fertilized it makes a female worker this is female worker brood and as you can see