Sentences with phrase «of female worker bees»

The structure of a honeybee hive is both fascinating and highly complex — a pod of thousands of female worker bees, a few hundred male drones in the summer and, at the epicentre, the queen.

Some caveats to make note of include the lack of proof of intake (amounts consumed) of the pesticide in feeding bees and the lack of exposure measurements, as drones typically eat three times the amount of female worker bees yet the effects of the pesticides on longevity look broadly similar between the two sexes.

The wings of female worker bees are powerful, too.

Not exact matches

If... men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive - bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker - bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering.

From flower power to girl power, during summer months, 98 % of the hive's population is composed of female «worker bees.»

These consist of male drones, but mostly large cadres of female «worker» bees that attend to the hive and its inhabitants and forage for food.