Sentences with phrase «queen bee produces»

Normally, the honeybee is no exception to this rule: the female queen bee produces new offspring by laying eggs that have been fertilised by sperm from male drones.

Not exact matches

Or bees, one queen and the rest males... any other females are killed... when evolution says they should produce more offspring... they're killed....

Despite the bees having low genetic diversity and high levels of a nematode parasite that usually castrates other species, 25 per cent of the queens were able to produce offspring.

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shows that tree bumblebees have rapidly spread despite them carrying high levels of an infection that normally prevents queen bees from producing colonies.

According to Hamilton, altruistic behavior, such as a worker bee caring for young produced by a queen rather than producing and caring for its own offspring, can evolve if the worker is closely related to the queen's young.

Farmers eager to increase their crop yields turned to commercial beekeepers, who offered up massive wooden hives stocked with queen bees genetically selected to produce colonies of good pollinators.

It is harvested by humans by stimulating colonies with movable frame hives to produce queen bees.

Is produced by working honeybees as food for potential queen bees.

But the real shock came when the researchers realized that the treated colonies had produced 85 % fewer queen bees than the untreated groups.