Let's explore the major differences between queen and worker bees and why this hierarchical system is crucial to hive ...

work a little differently. Female bees, like us, are diploid, coming from fertilised eggs with two sets of alleles. A queen must mate to produce females, because the father contributes half of the ...

The face of a sweat bee (Megalopta amoena) that is half female (viewer's left, bee's right) and half male (viewer's right, bee's left) Chelsey Ritner / Utah State University In the spring of 2018 ...

If the queen bee dies, the workers can lay unfertilized eggs that become female bees instead of male bees. Thanks to a quirk in the cape honey bees’ egg-making process, the egg cell contains two ...

Femur, apical spines, and tibia of F male and G female hindlegs H dorsal view of stinger I ventral view of metasoma (female left side of image, male right side). Scale bars: 500 μm. (Credit ...

Worker bees ‘know’ when to invest in their reproductive future. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 08 / 140820091609.htm ...

UBC researchers, led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Alison McAfee, investigated drones, male bees whose only role is to mate with a queen. We already know that drones can’t handle heat stress as well as ...