CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How do bees reproduce?

After mating with a drone, a virgin queen bee (female) will store sperm in her body for several years. The queen bee can freely choose to lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. The queen bee lays unfertilized eggs in the drone cell and develops into a drone (parthenogenesis). The queen bee lays fertilized eggs in the worker bee cell and the queen bee cell and develops into a worker bee and a queen bee. All bee larvae are fed royal jelly for the first three days, and worker bee and drone larvae are fed honey and pollen after three days. Only the larvae in the queen bee cell are always fed royal jelly and fully develop into a queen bee.

Extended information: Honey bees belong to the order Hymenoptera and the family Apidae. They are flying social insects, and they are called resource insects. They are 8-20 mm long, yellowish brown or dark brown, and covered with dense hairs; the head is almost as wide as the chest; the waist is thinner than the chest and abdomen; the antennae are knee-shaped, the compound eyes are oval, the mouthparts are chewing and sucking, and the hind legs are pollen-carrying legs; there are two pairs of membranous wings, the front wings are large, the hind wings are small, and the front and back wings are linked by wing hooks; the abdomen is nearly oval, with less body hair than the chest, and there is a stinger at the end of the abdomen. Honey bees are holometabolous insects, and they go through four stages in their life: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Reference: Bee - Baidu Encyclopedia

Reproduction method:

After mating with a drone, a virgin queen bee (female) will store sperm in her body for several years. The queen bee can freely choose to lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. There are three sizes of honeycombs. The smallest is the worker bee cell (horizontal to the ground), the drone cell is 1 mm larger in diameter than the worker bee cell, and the queen cell is the largest and smallest. Usually, when breeding queen bees, worker bees start to make queen cells at the bottom of the hive, facing downwards (vertical to the ground).

The queen bee lays unfertilized eggs in the drone cells, which develop into drones (parthenogenesis). The queen bee lays fertilized eggs in the worker cells and queen cells, which develop into worker bees and queen bees. All bee larvae are fed royal jelly for the first three days, and worker bee and drone larvae are fed honey and pollen after three days. Only the larvae in the queen cell are constantly fed royal jelly and fully develop into queen bees.

The sex of an organism is not necessarily determined by sex chromosomes. In bees and ants, sex is determined by the number of chromosomes (or the number of chromosome sets), not sex chromosomes. Bees and ants do not have sex chromosomes. Queen bees and worker bees are both female, and they develop from fertilized eggs. Each somatic cell contains 32 chromosomes, two chromosome sets, and are diploid. Drones are very few in number in a colony, and they develop from unfertilized eggs. Their somatic cells contain 16 chromosomes, one chromosome set, and are haploid.

Bees are composed of queen bees, drones and worker bees. The queen bees and worker bees develop from fertilized eggs, while drones develop from unfertilized egg cells. The queen bees and worker bees are diploid (2n=32), while drones are haploid (n=16). How do haploid drones produce sperm? In the process of producing sperm, the spermatocytes of drones undergo a special form of meiosis. In the first meiotic division, the number of chromosomes does not change, but the cytoplasm is divided into two parts of different sizes. The large part contains a complete nucleus, and the small part is just a mass of cytoplasm, which will degenerate and disappear after a period of time. The second meiotic division is an ordinary mitosis: in the mass of cytoplasm containing the nucleus, the chromatids separate from each other, while the cytoplasm undergoes unequal division. The part with more cytoplasm (containing 16 chromosomes) further develops into sperm, while the part with less cytoplasm (also containing 16 chromosomes) gradually degenerates. Through this meiosis, one spermatocyte of a drone produces only one sperm. Both the spermatocyte and the sperm are haploid cells. This special meiosis is called "pseudomeiosis".

Honey bees are insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. All three types of bees go through four developmental stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult (adult bee). The four stages of honey bees are morphologically different. Among the members of their large family, there is a queen bee, which is a female bee with reproductive ability, responsible for laying eggs and reproducing offspring, and "ruling" the large family.

Before giving birth, the queen bee is protected by a group of drones in her family. She mates with drones from other places and stores the sperm of the drones in her own spermatophore (so that there will be no inbreeding). There are two types of brood pouches in the hive. One type has a larger opening, so that the queen bee will not press on her body when giving birth, and will directly produce unfertilized eggs. Drones develop from the eggs directly produced by the queen bee (haploid). The other type of brood pouch is smaller, which will press on the spermatophore in its body, so that the fertilized eggs will be discharged, resulting in female bees. By the way, worker bees are female, but they did not eat royal jelly when they were young and do not have sexual function.

Reproduction method

After mating with a male bee, a virgin queen bee (female) will store sperm in her body for several years. The queen bee can freely choose to lay fertilized eggs or unfertilized eggs.

There are three sizes of beehives. The smallest is the worker bee cell (horizontal to the ground), the drone cell is 1 mm larger in diameter than the worker bee cell, and the queen cell is the largest and smallest. Usually, when the queen is being cultivated, the worker bees start making the queen cell at the bottom of the hive, facing downwards (vertical to the ground).

The queen bee lays unfertilized eggs in the drone cells, which develop into drones (parthenogenesis).

The queen bee lays fertilized eggs in the worker bee cells and queen bee cells, which develop into worker bees and queen bee.

All bee larvae are fed royal jelly for the first three days, and worker bee and drone larvae are fed honey and pollen after three days. Only the larvae in the queen bee cell are always fed royal jelly and fully develop into queen bees.

The sex of an organism is not necessarily determined by sex chromosomes. In bees and ants, sex is determined by the number of chromosomes (or the number of chromosome sets), not sex chromosomes. Bees and ants do not have sex chromosomes. Queen bees and worker bees are both female, and they develop from fertilized eggs. Each somatic cell contains 32 chromosomes, two chromosome sets, and are diploid. Drones are very few in number in a colony, and they develop from unfertilized eggs. Their somatic cells contain 16 chromosomes, one chromosome set, and are haploid.

Bees are composed of queen bees, drones and worker bees. The queen bees and worker bees develop from fertilized eggs, while drones develop from unfertilized egg cells. The queen bees and worker bees are diploid (2n=32), while drones are haploid (n=16). How do haploid drones produce sperm? In the process of producing sperm, the spermatocytes of drones undergo a special form of meiosis. In the first meiotic division, the number of chromosomes does not change, but the cytoplasm is divided into two parts of different sizes. The large part contains a complete nucleus, and the small part is just a mass of cytoplasm, which will degenerate and disappear after a period of time. The second meiotic division is an ordinary mitosis: in the mass of cytoplasm containing the nucleus, the chromatids separate from each other, while the cytoplasm undergoes unequal division. The part with more cytoplasm (containing 16 chromosomes) further develops into sperm, while the part with less cytoplasm (also containing 16 chromosomes) gradually degenerates. Through this meiosis, a spermatocyte of a male bee produces only one sperm, and both the spermatocyte and the sperm are haploid cells. This special meiosis is called "pseudomeiosis".

Honey bees are insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. All three types of bees go through four stages of development: egg, larva, pupa and adult (adult bee). The four stages of honey bees are morphologically different.

This requires understanding the living habits of bees

The female bee is the queen bee, and there is only one in each beehive. A bee colony will be established only after the queen bee mates with the drones. Under normal circumstances, the eggs laid by the queen bee will be hatched and fed with honey. After hatching, they will become worker bees, which are female bees without reproductive capacity, such as the diploids mentioned on the first floor, which are produced by the hatching of normal fertilized eggs. When the hive expands to a certain scale and is accompanied by suitable climatic conditions, the queen bee will lay haploids, that is, unfertilized eggs, which will become drones after hatching. At the same time, the queen bee will focus on feeding some normal fertilized eggs with royal jelly, and these fertilized eggs fed with royal jelly will hatch into female bees. The newly hatched female bees will fly out of the hive to find drones to mate and start the next cycle.