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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Roll 8 Apr \ on: Stacker Saloon
Worker bees have different duties depending on their age. Newborns are in charge of childcare, while 1-week-old ones are responsible for building new hives and distributing food. As they get a bit older, they start to guard and help defend their home. They go out to forage for pollen when they are over 3 weeks old. Worker bees have different roles for different ages because of the size of their brains and memory capacity. It takes a certain amount of time after birth for them to build enough memory capacity to remember how to find their way back home.
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-Bee Type Primary Roles Lifespan
Queen Reproduction, colony regulation Up to 5 years
Worker Cleaning, foraging, guard duty, nursing 5-6 weeks
Drone Mating with virgin queens A few months
-A bee becomes a queen bee thanks to the efforts of the existing worker bees in the hive. A young larva (newly hatched baby insect) is fed special food called "royal jelly" by the worker bees. Royal jelly is richer than the food given to worker larvae, and is necessary for the larva to develop into a fertile queen bee. The larva is enclosed with a cell inside the hive, where it makes pupae and develops into a queen.
PS: my 1st post was just to inform about one aspect of Bees and not about all the aspects of bees as in that case should be a full post
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