life cycle of honey bee
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All bee life cycles go through these stages, although there are great variations between the life cycles of solitary, honey and bumblebees, (as explained elsewhere on my site - see links.
But for now, let’s focus on the honey bee life cycle. Here's my little drawing giving an overview (you can download a larger PDF version below):
honey bee life cycle
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Unlike bumblebee colonies, honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies can survive the winter, provided they have enough food resources, are able to keep sufficiently warm, and are free of diseases and predators. However, in the winter, colonies are smaller than in the summer: there are no drones, and perhaps part of the colony left the hive (in a swarm) to form a new nest elsewhere.
Some of the workers will also die naturally during the winter months, however, there may be up to 20,000 workers left, and a queen.
The queen and the rest of the colony will form a winter cluster to keep warm during the cold months. There will be no brood to tend to, and no eggs are laid during this time. However, as the days begin to warm up, and the flowers begin to bloom, honey bees will begin to go out foraging again, and the queen honey bee will begin to lay eggs.
After 3 days, eggs hatch into worker larvae. During this stage, each larva will be fed about 1,300 times a day! They are fed by worker bees that have the specific task of tending the brood, and are referred to as the ‘brood nurses’.
The food given is made from pollen, honey, and secretions from the brood nurses, and is called ‘bee bread’. (Find out more about bee bread ).
Potential honey bee queens, however, are given ‘royal jelly’, a much richer food.
After about 6 days, the egg cells are capped, and each larva spins itself a cocoon and becomes a pupa.
Worker bees take 10 days to emerge from pupae. Drones take slightly longer. New Queens, however, take about 6 days.
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