ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eusociality, Early Summer, Unit
15 Mar 2018
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How bees reproduce at the colony level and how the sex of bees is genetically determined. A multi allelic system in the sex gene determines whether a bee will be a male or a female. Discuss how bees reproduce at the colony level; and. Explain how sex is determined in a social insect. Swarming is the natural reproduction of honey bee colonies whereas absconding is when all the bees of a hive leave. The following is an outline of key information on this subtopic. Other factors include the genetic predisposition of certain bee strains and the presence of an old queen in a colony. Signs of swarming: workers reduce their foraging activity, bees accumulate at the hive entrance (form a beard, presence of queen cells in the brood nest. Ultimately, the scouts fly away from the tree, leading the swarm towards the selected site.
