Question

Collect information about life cycle of honey bees

Answer 1

Each colony contains three adult castes: egg-laying queens, sperm-producing male drones and nonreproductive female workers. Thelife cycle of honey bees begins when an egg hatches. ... With sperm stored from the mating flight, she begins to lay eggs inside the hive.

Honey bees undergo complete metamorphosis, which involves four developmental stages:

Egg

Larva

Pupa

Adult

Reproduction
Virgin queens fly to a location where she may encounter hundreds of male honey bees waiting for her to arrive so they can inseminate her. Each female will likely mate with several males and each male is able to mate from 7 to 10 times.

After mating, the males die. The mated queen lives on and uses the male sperm to fertilize the eggs she produces, a process that continues to occur throughout her life. When she dies or discontinues to produce eggs, a new generation of queens will mate and produce their own colonies. Each colony will only have one fertile queen.

Eggs
Honey bee queens control the sex of their offspring. As eggs pass through the queen’s ovary into the oviduct, she can determine whether a particular egg is fertilized or not.

The development of each member of a colony differs depending on caste: male honey bees need 24 days for proper growth from eggs to adult, workers need 21 days, and queens require only 16. In order for a colony to survive, the queen must lay fertilized eggs to create worker bees, which forage for food and take care of the colony.

Honey bee eggs are small, only being about 1/2 the size of a grain of rice. When the queen lays her eggs, she moves through the comb, closely examining each cell before laying her eggs. The process of laying one egg takes only a few seconds, and a queen is capable of laying up to 2,000 eggs within a single day.

Larvae
Honey bee larvae are legless, wingless grubs. After about 3 days eggs will hatch into larvae, which will be fed by the workers with honey, royal jelly, and other liquids from plants. These larvae have no legs, eyes, antennae, or wings, and resemble a grain of rice with a small mouth.

Larvae develop inside their egg chamber and will eat and grow into adult workers, queens, or drones.

Pupae
Larvae shed their skin and molt several times before they enter the pupal stage. After another molt, these pupae will emerge as adult honey bees and begin to perform their specialized tasks for the colony.

Adults
Each colony is made up of adults that have various specialties. Each colonycontains three kinds of adult known as castes, with each caste given specific jobs within the colony. Honey bees castes are:

Egg-laying queens

Non-reproductive female workers

Sperm-producing male drones

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Answer 2

The life cycle of a honey bee has three phases- the larva, pupa and the adult stage.  

EXPLANATION:

The queen bee lays fertilised as well as unfertilised eggs. The fertilised eggs hatch to give queen and worker bees. The unfertilised eggs hatch to give drone bees. After hatching, the bees spend at least six days in the larva stage where they are provided nutrition.

In the pupa stage, the various parts of the honey bee form like the wings, legs and the body. After 20-21 days, the bees emerge from the pupa. In the adult stage, the bees take care of themselves. The adult stage begins once the glands that produce the larval food and wax begin to degenerate.