ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Apidae, Apoidea, Western Honey Bee
15 Sep 2018
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A honey bee is an insect of the order hymenoptera (insects with four membranous wings). As all insects, bees have three pairs of legs and their body is segmented. There are three types of individuals (castes) in a bee colony: the queen, the worker and the drone. Queens and workers are females and drones are males. The queen has two main functions in the colony: 2) to produce pheromones (chemicals) that help maintain colony cohesion, stimulate food foraging and regulate colony reproduction. Inhibits the ovaries of the other bees so that only her can reproduce a: the activity will decrease if queen is absent, sometimes there will be 2 queens in the colony before queen get replaced (mother and daughter. Develop from unfertilized eggs (they have mother but lack father) Queen can lay an egg without using sperms and develops into drones. They only carry half the genetic makeup of that carried by female bees.
