Some articles on worker bees, workers, bees:
Western Honey Bee - Queens
... a swarm where the old queen will take about half the worker bees to found a new colony, leaving the new queen with the other half of worker bees to continue the old colony ... The worker bees will find several eggs or larvae of the right age-range, and attempt to develop them into queens ... Regardless of the trigger, the workers develop the larvae into queens by continuing to feed them royal jelly, which triggers an extended development as a pupa ...
... a swarm where the old queen will take about half the worker bees to found a new colony, leaving the new queen with the other half of worker bees to continue the old colony ... The worker bees will find several eggs or larvae of the right age-range, and attempt to develop them into queens ... Regardless of the trigger, the workers develop the larvae into queens by continuing to feed them royal jelly, which triggers an extended development as a pupa ...
Parthenogenesis - Natural Occurrence - Insects
... Among the hymenopterans (ants, bees and wasps), haploid males are produced from unfertilized eggs ... Usually eggs are laid only by the queen, but the unmated workers may also lay haploid, male eggs either regularly (e.g ... stingless bees) or under special circumstances ...
... Among the hymenopterans (ants, bees and wasps), haploid males are produced from unfertilized eggs ... Usually eggs are laid only by the queen, but the unmated workers may also lay haploid, male eggs either regularly (e.g ... stingless bees) or under special circumstances ...
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