Question

the life cycle of Honey bees

Answer 1

Honey bees develop in four distinct life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The total development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, but the basic miraculous process is the same: 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens.

Answer 2

The life cycle of Honey bees

Explanation:

• The honeybee life cycle takes place in four stages :

                                                         Egg, larva, pupa, adult

• Egg : An egg is laid by the honey bee queen in a wax, hexagonal egg cell.  The egg is about the size of a grain of rice and initially stands upright in the cell, but falls onto its side by the third day.The honey bee queen may lay between to 2000 and 3000 eggs per day. Fertilized eggs will become females (workers or potential queens).  Unfertilized eggs will become drones (male honey bees) and are laid in 'drone cells' which are larger cells than  those of worker bees.  A potential future queen honey bee is laid in a special cell, called a 'queen cell'.
• Larva : After 3 days, the egg develops into a larva, which looks like a small white grub.  It has no legs and is blind.  The larvae are fed by young worker bees that have not yet left the hive or nest.  Initially, all the larvae are fed royal jelly for three days, and after this they are fed bee bread, which is a mixture of honey and pollen.  A larva destined to be a queen is fed only on royal jelly, which is a special substance made in special glands in the head, and the salivary glands in the mouth.  Royal jelly is sometimes called 'bee milk' and is produced by young nurse bees (worker bees of between 5 and 14 days old).  Royal jelly contains protein, vitamins, fats (lipids), and sugar.  As the larva grows, it will moult (shed its outer skin) several times.  After about 6 days (depending on whether the bee is a worker, drone or queen), the egg cell is covered with a layer of wax by the worker bees.
• Pupa : Inside the sealed egg cell, the larva begins to spin a cocoon around itself and pupate. During this phase, the larva develops into a recognizable bee, with wings, legs, head, thorax and abdomen.
• Adult : Eventually, a young adult bee will emerge from the egg cell, by chewing its way through the wax capping. All in all, from the time the egg was laid, it takes new queens about 16 days to emerge from the egg cell, whereas workers require between 18 and 22 days to fully develop, and drones need 24 days.

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