Sentences with phrase «developing queen bees»
Once emerged from a larva, a virgin queen will proceed to either lead a swarm from the hive to find new nesting ground or kill the other developing queen bees by stinging them through the wall of their cells.
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«Queen bees will only lay eggs when the eggs are fully developed,» said Prof. Nigel Raine, holder of the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation.
The researchers found that across all four species the queen bees that were given higher doses of thiamethoxam had smaller, less - developed eggs than the queens not exposed to the pesticide.
When female larvae are fed royal jelly, secreted by other bees, they develop into large, fertile queens.
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.»