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Life Cycle of Honey Bees
Life Cycle Stages Honey bees undergo complete metamorphosis, which involves four developmental stages: Egg Larva Pupa Adult Reproduction Virgin queens fly to a location where she may encounter hundreds of male honey beeswaiting for her to arrive so they can inseminate her. Each female will likely mate with several males and each male is able to mate from 7 to 10 times. After mating, the males die. The mated queen lives on and uses the male sperm to fertilize the eggs she produces, a process that continues to occur throughout her life. When she dies or discontinues to produce eggs, a new generation of queens will mate and produce their own colonies. Each colony will only have one fertile queen. Eggs Honey bee queens control the sex of their offspring. As eggs pass through the queen’s ovary into the oviduct, she can determine whether a particular egg is fertilized or not. The development of each member of a colony diffe...
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