7. 3 CASTE SYSTEM
QUEEN
DECIDES
Fertilized Un
Fertilized
DRONE
QUEEN
WORKER
Well
Fed
Lightly
Fed
WORKERS
DECIDE
FEMALE
FEMALE
MALE
8.
9. SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
Not # of insects BUT # of colonies
Swarm is reproduction method
New queens reared by bees
30 to 70% of bees leave with old queen
Swarm finds a new home
Queen cells, capped brood – workers, drones, larvae,
Busy slide but shows a lot to a beekeeper
Queen cells in middle of frame
A bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
Workers – work themselves to death
Drone – dies after mating
Honey bees have six legs, two eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, , and two wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.
Emerged queen
Attacked cells
Cells on bottom of frame – swarm
