This is off the dome so someone correct me if I’m misremembering but:
With colony insects a “drone” or fertile male is generally created when an unfertilized egg is laid, a “worker” or infertile female is a fertilized egg, a queen is a worker who is fed a special diet as a larva to make her a fertile queen.
When a Queen bee lays eggs, fertilized eggs became female and unfertilized eggs become male.
Queen bees develop when a female larva is continuously fed nothing but royal jelly. Worker bees are what result when female larva are fed a mixture of pollen and honey known as bee bread.
Bees make more than just honey. One of the things is a substance called royal jelly. All bees are fed this at the very beginning of their development. If you stop feeding them the royal jelly after the beginning, the bee becomes a drone. If you continue to feed it the royal jelly, it will become a queen. There are lots of reasons bees choose to make new queens or not. In short, it’s not luck, they are deciding
In bees (and ants and wasps), the sex is determined by if its fertilized. A fertilized egg grows into a female, and an unfertilized egg grows into a male (or drone in the case of a honeybee). This also means male bees don’t have fathers.
In female bee larvae, what determines what they grow up into depends on their diet. They’re initially fed with royal jelly (a white substance made from young adult worker bees), and queens are only fed royal jelly, while workers switch to being fed honey and pollen.
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This is off the dome so someone correct me if I’m misremembering but:
With colony insects a “drone” or fertile male is generally created when an unfertilized egg is laid, a “worker” or infertile female is a fertilized egg, a queen is a worker who is fed a special diet as a larva to make her a fertile queen.
When a Queen bee lays eggs, fertilized eggs became female and unfertilized eggs become male.
Queen bees develop when a female larva is continuously fed nothing but royal jelly. Worker bees are what result when female larva are fed a mixture of pollen and honey known as bee bread.
Bees make more than just honey. One of the things is a substance called royal jelly. All bees are fed this at the very beginning of their development. If you stop feeding them the royal jelly after the beginning, the bee becomes a drone. If you continue to feed it the royal jelly, it will become a queen. There are lots of reasons bees choose to make new queens or not. In short, it’s not luck, they are deciding
In bees (and ants and wasps), the sex is determined by if its fertilized. A fertilized egg grows into a female, and an unfertilized egg grows into a male (or drone in the case of a honeybee). This also means male bees don’t have fathers.
In female bee larvae, what determines what they grow up into depends on their diet. They’re initially fed with royal jelly (a white substance made from young adult worker bees), and queens are only fed royal jelly, while workers switch to being fed honey and pollen.