Sentences with phrase «become queen bees»

The same process that determines why certain bees become queen bees while others with the exact same DNA become worker bees also plays a role in how doughnuts eaten by a pregnant woman may influence whether her child becomes obese.

She was an ordinary bee and then she was chosen and fed royal jelly and became the queen bee who lays up to 2000 eggs a day.

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Sarah at high school becomes the focus of the queen bee who is a bully.

Dr. Phil joins with Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, to give parents advice on helping their daughters become accountable for their actions.

«When deprived of the pheromone that queens emit, worker bees and ants become more self - centred and lazy, and they begin to lay eggs,» said lead researcher Dr Luke Holman from The Australian National University (ANU).

A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p - coumaric acid, plays a key role in the bees» developmental fate.

A larva that is destined to become a queen is fed large amounts of something called «royal jelly» that causes the growing queen to develop differently than the worker bees, which are fed «worker jelly.»

Although queen bees have ensured the survival of their colonies for thousands of years, the modern world holds many dangers that have become hot topics for environmentalists and apiologists over recent years.

As the population of the colony grows and the hive becomes overcrowded, some bees lose the ability to sense their queen and begin to create another to replace her.

Two studies in Science found that pesticides which first came into use in the 1990s, known as neonicotinoids, have resulted in bee hives losing their queens while worker bees seeing a loss in their ability to navigate, until eventually they would become lost to the hive.