Describ the duties of the different kind of bees in the beehive?
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Bees are highly organized and fascinating society. A bee colony, known as a super-organism, as a single bee can't survive on its own. There are division of labor in the organization and each has to carry out different role.
Some categories of bees in hive:
Queen Bee: She is the only fertile female in the colony. The queen continuously emits pheronomous, a perfume, can be smelled by only beehives; indicate that queen is alive and hive is safe. The queen store million of eggs in her body and lays according to hive's need. The queen bee can lay 2000 eggs in a single day.
Drone Bee: These are male bees and only has one task, to fertilize new queens. He neither have sting to protect the hive nor such a body structure to collect nectar or pollen from flowers. Some colony will eject the drones from the hive when there is limited food.
Worker Bee: She is a female bee and constitute the largest population in the colony. When there is no queen in the colony, these bees lays eggs which turns into drones. Each worker bee has different responsibility according to time and age.
Cleaner Bee: Workers become cleaners of the brood cell when they become 2 or 3 days old. They are responsible for cleaning the brood cells and inspected by queen, if not done properly then they have to do it again.
Undertakers: When cleaners become older, they turn into undertakers. They have the task of removing diseased bees and brood from the hive as far as possible before they become a health threat to the colony.
Nurse: Brood care bees assume the role of incubating and caring for the developing larvae. When ever hive is infected with parasite, the nurse bees selectively eat honey that has high antibody and distribute it to the other members.
Builders: 12 day old workers bees are capable of producing bee wax, which is used to make comb.
Temperature controller: These bees control the temperature and humidity within the hive. In the hot, they collect water from a short distance and spread on the fanning bees, which ventilate the hive with their wings. In winter, bees congregate in cluster to keep themselves warm.
Guard Bees: Guarding the beehive is the last task of working bees before venturing out to the field. They inspect all bees for a familiar scent, whether there is an intruder or not. They also protect the hives from the other insects.
Forager: When bees are 14 years old, they turn into a forager. These bees leave the hive at the time of sunrise in search of nectar, pollen from flowers up to 5KM radius from the hive and return at the time of sunset. Then can collect up to 10 tips of the nector in a day. Most of these dies in the field after a 6-8 week job.
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