1. What food does the queen bee larva eat?
Queen bee larvae eat royal jelly. The queen bee is cultivated by worker bees with fertilized eggs, and worker bees build a queen bee platform. Worker bees take special care of the fertilized eggs of queen bee platform and feed them with royal jelly until the larvae pupate. Royal jelly is milky white serosity secreted by the vegetative glands of young worker bees that cultivate larvae in bee nests, which plays an important role in promoting the development of female reproductive organs. Therefore, the queen bee who eats royal jelly for life is fertile and has a life span of 4-5 years.
2. What food do worker bee larvae eat?
Worker bee larvae eat pollen, nectar and honey. Worker bees can only eat royal jelly for the first few days in the larval stage, and then feed it with ordinary honey, which can't complete the development of reproductive ability and eventually develop into worker bees. It is very interesting that if these larvae can continue to eat royal jelly, they can also develop into queen bees. For example, when bees lose their king, worker bees make a queen bee platform to cultivate a new king, and actually use ordinary worker bee larvae.
3. What food do drone larvae eat?
Drone larvae eat pollen, nectar and honey. Drones are developed from unfertilized eggs laid by the queen bee and develop in larger male hives. Worker bees also feed drone larvae well, and their food intake is 1 ~ 2 times larger than that of worker bee larvae. But sometimes worker bees also produce unfertilized eggs, but even if these eggs hatch, they can only hatch smaller drones. In order to ensure the dominant position, queen bees often eat unfertilized eggs laid by worker bees.
4. How long can the bee larvae leave home?
1, queen bee: The queen bee is cultivated by fertilized eggs laid by the old queen bee and made by worker bees. The eggs hatch into larvae after 3 days, and the larvae begin to pupate after 5 days. After 8 days, the new queen bee will bite open the roof and climb out of the hive.
2. Worker bee: The queen bee fertilized eggs in the worker bee property, and the eggs hatch into larvae after 3 days. The larvae began to pupate after 6 days, and the pupae emerged into adult bees after 12 days. Worker bees over 3 weeks old began to leave the nest for collection activities.
3. Drones: The eggs of drones hatch into larvae after 3 days, and the larvae begin to pupate after 7 days. Pupa cover/kloc-becomes a bee in 0/3 days, and can only fly after 6-7 days out of the house. They naturally mature after leaving the house 12 days and can only mate with the queen.