BB king week 3

 BB KING

 

Harps

Don't think we can use them until July though because the queen is pretty big (as are the drones) and she could get zapped if she was doing her mating flight. Not sure.

Place in garden again

...Bee basics

Are All Bees Female?

Not all bees are female. There are three types of honey bees within a hive: the queen, the workers, and the drones. A queen bee is the only female bee in the hive that gets to reproduce. Worker bees are all female, and are all offspring of the queen. But there are males in the hive called drones. Drones fly off to reproduce with other young queens who will start a new colony.

There are three types of honey bee within every hive: workers, drones, and a queen. The workers and the queen are female. Queens are reproductive and are larger than the workers. The drones are male, have much larger compound eyes, and do not have stingers.

 

There seem to be plenty of parallels with human society here. What kind of bee are YOU?

To the bee specialist this afternoon...

and tomorrow hives in the garden...