THE QUEEN BEES AND THEIR ROLE

IF THE WORKER BEES ARE CHARACTERISED BY A CERTAIN FLEXIBILITY OF BEHAVIORS, THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID FOR THE QUEEN BEES WHO CANNOT CONVERT TO OTHER ROLES. HERE ARE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR TASKS WITHIN THE HIVE.

Within the bees ' colony, the Queen bee is an adult female, which develops in a more complete way from the workers, from whom, when it is still larva, it is nourished with royal jelly to reach first the sexual maturity (it employs 16 days for Become adult insects, of varying lengths on average between 17 mm and 20 mm with particularly developed abdomen. In reference to the Queen's Bees and their role, let's start by saying that normally each of these is the mother of all bees of the hive and the only fertile individual.

The development of the Queen bee is in a real cell, larger than the other of the hive and marked by an inverted acorn shape. If worker bees are forced into total chastity for life, thequeen Bee can mate in two days with a maximum of 12-15 drones. How does the coupling happen? In Flight! Once concluded, the Queen returns to the hive to lay the fertilized eggs (up to 2,000), while the drones die.

The role of the Queen bees is fundamental for the survival of the hive, as beekeepers argue that it represents the beating heart of the entire hive, so much so that if 1,000 worker bees die as well, everything would continue smoothly. The eventual death of the Queen bee, however, would decree the fall of the structure. In conclusion, therefore, it is not an exaggeration to define the hive as a super-organism, where the "sovereign" governs both reproductive functions, as we have seen, that nerve emitting chemicals. In The latter case, we speak of "real substance". What is it? A kind of scent that bees sniff through their antennas. We conclude the discourse on the Queen bees and their role by stating that every "sovereign" lives on average between 4 and 5 years.

PS: For a beekeeper, recognizing aqueen bee inside the hive can be quite complex, especially if the colony is composed of 60,000 and passes individuals. In order to avoid problems, the bred queen bees are marked with a coloured marker or coloured diskettes. The operation is known as marking.