If the queen bee dies, what happens to the other bees?
Aug 18,2022 Lucia Ma
If the queen bee of the bee dies unexpectedly and the transmission of the queen pheromone is lacking in the colony, the worker bees will soon find out that the queen bee is gone, which will cause a certain amount of confusion in a short period of time. Crawling back and forth, restless, trying to find the queen bee, opening the box and checking will find the bee colony making a loud noise, stinging people for no reason. After this situation has been maintained for a period of time (no more than half a day), the worker bees begin to calm down and search for small worker bee larvae suitable for transformation into queen bees within three days on the spleen. Cheng Wangtai, began to feed with royal jelly, this kind of Wangtai generally can appear more than 5, as many as 10. The virgin queens born in this kind of wangtai are small in physique and have poor egg-laying ability after mating. After a few months of egg laying, new kings will be replaced in the colony, that is, the worker bees will re-bring new queens to replace the old queens.
The second situation: there are no small larvae in the colony that can be transformed into queen bees.
If the queen bee dies unexpectedly, and the newly bred virgin queen after the transformation of the small larvae is lost when mating, and there is no external queen bee to supplement, there will be no larvae in the colony, and the king station cannot be built. At this time, the body color of the worker bees in the colony will gradually turn black and bright as time goes by, and they are very excited in behavior and will actively attack people and animals near the hive. Due to the lack of queen pheromone inhibition, the ovaries of some worker bees begin to develop, and worker bees lay eggs. Several eggs can be found in the same hive. These are unfertilized eggs, which can only hatch into small drones and lay eggs. The latter worker bees are difficult to distinguish from other worker bees in appearance. Besides laying eggs, they also participate in all activities inside and outside the hive (collecting honey and powder). Peaks are infertile and entire colonies will disappear into nature.