Queen Bee laying eggs!!! (complete video)

[Music] the queen has only one job too but it's the most important of all she must lay the eggs for the next generation of workers drones and even her own replacement but first the Queen must mate and to do that she must leave the hive she sets off on her first meeting flight when she's about a week old [Music] when the Queen appears she's immediately surrounded by the males who follow her unique scent each of the dozen or so drones who get to mate with the Queen dies in the act [Music] the Queen flies back to the hive immediately her body carrying the sign of success what's left of the mail she'll make a few more mating flights in the coming days and then have enough sperm in her body to fertilize eggs for the rest of her life which may last from one to four years it's now time for the beekeeper to pay his respects to her Royal Highness but he comes with an ulterior motives a mated Queen can be sold to another beekeeper who wants to establish a new colony such valuable property needs to be marked like the brand on a steer every day the Queen will lay about 1,500 eggs 200,000 in a year [Music] it's a tough job but someone has to do the Queen's royal scent prevents the female workers from laying eggs themselves [Music] it takes a few days for the eggs to grow into larvae they are then bathed in a special food brought to them by workers during its first day a larva eats so much its weight increases five and a half times in six days its weight increases 1,500 times the larvae then spin cocoons and pupae develop inside until they emerge two weeks later as adult bees the Queen only stops laying eggs when the weather grows colder in November [Music] each bee makes the metamorphosis from egg to larva to adult in about three weeks and there's little surprised about the newborns sex since every worker is a female and almost every bee is a worker [Music] in a colony of tens of thousands only a hundred bees are born male the dome-shaped covers of their brood cells provide extra space for their larger bodies worker bees act as midwives - a system [Music] but a worker herself has to fight her way out of her brood cell unaided no coddling allowed here [Music] soon the worker will follow her well-ordered behavioral cycle beginning with cleaning her own cell the males on the other hand receive special care they are helped out of their cells and immediately fed [Music] in an otherwise society of equals the male does not have to work even his name drone is another word for an idler his large compound eyes tell of his sole purpose in life citing the Queen on the mating flight in a honey bee colony every member has a specific task to perform and everything has its place when the colony grows so large that the bees begin to run out of room they instinctively know that it's time for the old Queen to leave with half the population and a new queen to be crowned [Music] first construction needs to begin on special queen cells in which a dozen or so new would-be Queens will grow this is the most exclusive neighborhood in the hive as eggs all bees are equal but by feeding grubs a steady diet of royal jelly a mixture of milky secretions they're turned into Queens but before the new Queens hatch the old Queen must leave accompanied by thousands of workers who are close enough to follow her scent they swarm out of the hive in a mad swirling rush [Music] [Music] not far from the hinds the old queen lands to rest but the swarming bees follow her

Channel: Gozu

Views: 893,407

Rating: 4.7626729 out of 5

Keywords: Bee, Honey Bee, Entomology, Apiology, Queen Bee, Bee Hive, Bee biology, Biology, Insects, Honey, BeeHive, Apis Millifera, Killer bees, African Killer bees, Bee Ecology, Bee Life Cycle, Bozeman Science, Environmental science, Agriculture, PSAU, Animal Science, Crop Science, Agronomy, Trigona biroi, Stingless bee, UPLB, The Secret World of Bees, BUMBLEBEES, PAMPANGA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, Apiculture

Id: i7hGIP-RE8k

Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 21 2016

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