The queen bee isn’t a queen in the sense that she ... The difference is that fertilized eggs ….develop into female bees, any of which could become a new queen under the right conditions ...

Nurtured with food bearing a slightly higher sugar content, queen ... female offspring, while unfertilized eggs will become males. Maureen Dolan, NOVA Online's intern, worked with a bee researcher ...

female workers, and male bees (called drones). The queen bee is the only one that can lay eggs and it’s up to the female workers to pollinate plants and flowers. Bumble bees are also able to fly ...

Note the hairy eyebrows on the bee in the lower right--diagnostic for this group. Solitary bees; each female starts a nest ... Highly social, a single queen in a nest with thousands of offspring ...

The Pikeville Rotary Club welcomed a local beekeeper as its guest speaker Mar. 19 who talked about the critical role of ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, increasing the honey bee population does not help native bees. “Honey bees are to ...

Described before the United States won its independence, this fuzzy bee was once the most commonly ... sperm inside her body for months. • Some female worker bees can make their own eggs, but the ...