CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to hatch bee eggs (how to hatch the little bees bought at the school gate)

1. How to hatch bee eggs?

Honey bee eggs are laid by the queen bee and are usually incubated in the hive. Worker bees are responsible for incubating and caring for the young bees, placing the eggs in the nest chamber and feeding the young bees with "bee milk" secreted by their own feeding glands. After about 3 days, the eggs hatch into larvae, and after different periods of feeding and development, they eventually become a bee.

2. How to artificially incubate bee eggs?

How to artificially incubate bee eggs? Let's not talk about high-tech incubators, let's talk about folk methods. Bee eggs do not have high requirements for incubation. Just put the egg comb in the beehive and control the temperature at around 30 degrees.

3. How to hatch bees?

The hatching process of bees is divided into the egg stage, larva stage, pupa stage and adult stage.

1. Egg stage: Honey bee eggs are milky white, banana-shaped, 1.5-1.8 mm long, and weigh 0.3 mg. They are stuck to the bottom of the hive in an upright position, and it takes 3 days for the eggs to hatch into larvae.

2. Larvae: The larvae of bees are milky white, and their size increases with age. They are worm-like, moon-shaped, and have segments on their body surface. The larval stage of queen bees is 5 days, that of worker bees is 6 days, and that of drones is 7 days. After the number of days is up, they cap and develop into pupae.

3. Pupa stage: After the larvae develop in the hive or queen cell, they will go through 4 moltings and spin silk cocoons to become pupae. During this process, the larvae's body color gradually changes from milky white to brown, and the individual body becomes hardened, and the limbs gradually differentiate. The queen bee's pupal period is 8 days, the worker bee's is 12 days, and the drone's is 14 days.

4. Adult stage: The shape of the adult is the same as the drone, worker bee, and queen bee that we can see. It emerges as a queen bee inside the hive or queen cell, bites through the beeswax around the hive or queen cell, and then drills out.

4. How do bee eggs hatch?

First, the queen bee lays eggs in the hive. The eggs are upright for the first three days, and then they will lie flat in the hive. After seven days, the eggs will shed their outer shells and hatch into bee larvae. The bee larvae will eat the royal jelly that the worker bees have placed in the hive in advance. As time goes by, the bee larvae will gradually grow up. At a certain time, the worker bees will seal the hive with beeswax, and after a few days the bee larvae will bite open the cap, and it will become a bee.

5. How to hatch bee eggs?

The hatching process of bees is divided into the egg stage, larva stage, pupa stage and adult stage.

1. Egg stage: Honey bee eggs are milky white, banana-shaped, 1.5-1.8 mm long, and weigh 0.3 mg. They are stuck to the bottom of the hive in an upright position, and it takes 3 days for the eggs to hatch into larvae.

2. Larvae: The larvae of bees are milky white, and their size increases with age. They are worm-like, moon-shaped, and have segments on their body surface. The larval stage of queen bees is 5 days, that of worker bees is 6 days, and that of drones is 7 days. After the number of days is up, they cap and develop into pupae.

3. Pupa stage: After the larvae develop in the hive or queen cell, they will go through 4 moltings and spin silk cocoons to become pupae. During this process, the larvae's body color gradually changes from milky white to brown, and the individual body becomes hardened, and the limbs gradually differentiate. The queen bee's pupal period is 8 days, the worker bee's is 12 days, and the drone's is 14 days.

4. Adult stage: The shape of the adult is the same as the drone, worker bee, and queen bee that we can see. It emerges as a queen bee inside the hive or queen cell, bites through the beeswax around the hive or queen cell, and then drills out.

6. How are the bees sold in the shop hatched?

1. First, remove the dark brown bee eggs the size of rice grains from a honeycomb-shaped container.

2. Next, cover it with honey as food and hatch it when the temperature is right.

3. Finally, take out the bees

7. How to hatch bee eggs?

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1. Egg stage: Honey bee eggs are milky white, banana-shaped, 1.5-1.8 mm long, and weigh 0.3 mg. They are stuck to the bottom of the hive in an upright position. It takes 3 days for the eggs to hatch into larvae. Fertilized eggs develop into queen bees or worker bees, and unfertilized eggs develop into drones.

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Larvae: Honey bee larvae are also milky white, and their size increases with age. They are worm-like, moon-shaped, and have segments on their bodies. The larvae stage determines whether they can become queen bees or worker bees.

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Adult stage: The shape of the adult is the same as the drone, worker bee and queen bee that we can see.

8. How do bee eggs hatch?

1: Egg stage: Honey bee eggs are milky white, banana-shaped, 1.5-1.8 mm long and weigh 0.3 mg. They are stuck to the bottom of the hive in an upright position. It takes 3 days for the eggs to hatch into larvae. Fertilized eggs develop into queen bees or worker bees, and unfertilized eggs develop into drones.

2: Pupa stage: After the larvae develop in the hive or queen cell, they will go through 4 moltings and spin silk cocoons to become pupae. During this process, the larvae's body color gradually changes from milky white to brown, and the individual body becomes hardened, and the limbs gradually differentiate. The queen bee's pupal period is 8 days, the worker bee's is 12 days, and the drone's is 14 days.

3: Adult stage: The shape of the adult is the same as the drone, worker bee, and queen bee that we can see. It emerges as a queen bee in the hive or queen cell, bites through the beeswax around the hive or queen cell, and then drills out.

Related information:

Honey bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, family Apidae. Honey bees are social insects, consisting of queen bees, drones, worker bees and other individuals. There are many types of honey bees, mainly including ten types: small honey bees, black small honey bees, large honey bees, black large honey bees, Sabah honey bees, Sulawesi honey bees, green slave bees, western honey bees, oriental honey bees, and Chinese honey bees. The first four are wild bee species, distributed in Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan, China. The latter two include many subspecies, most of which are geographically isolated natural subspecies. Artificially bred honey bee varieties are mostly hybrids.

9. How do bee eggs hatch?

The life cycle of bees from laying eggs to becoming adult bees is divided into: Bees are holometabolous insects and go through four stages in their life: egg, larva, pupa and adult.

The embryo inside the egg develops into a larva after 3 days. The larval period of the queen bee is 5 days, that of the worker bee is 6 days, and that of the drone bee is 7 days. When the number of days is up, the worker bees will seal the entrance of the nest cell with wax, and the larvae will pupate at the end of 2 days after the capping. The pupal period of the queen bee is 8 days, that of the worker bee is 12 days, and that of the drone bee is 14 days.

Honey bees are composed of queen bees, drones and worker bees. The queen bee and worker bees develop from fertilized eggs, while drone bees develop from unfertilized eggs. The queen bee and worker bees are diploid (2n=32), while drone bees are haploid (n=16).

10. How can artificial bee eggs be hatched?

Regarding the question of what methods are available for artificially hatching bees, this question has actually been adopted a long time ago, but it is mainly used for cage bee production and has great limitations. For the bees in a bee colony, in fact, for the purpose of reproduction and production, the worker bees play the greatest role, so if we want to artificially hatch bees, the best way is to hatch worker bees. Next, we will look at when we can artificially hatch according to the developmental age of the worker bees.

Can worker bees be hatched artificially?

If we want to artificially hatch worker bees, we can look at the needs of worker bees hatching in a bee colony. For the hatching of worker bees in a bee colony, it is nothing more than satisfying the nutrition of the bee larvae. The bee colony has an adaptive temperature and humidity. If we can artificially meet these conditions of the bees, it is entirely possible for us to hatch worker bees. However, with current technology, can we fully provide the nutrition required by the bee larvae? Or under what circumstances can we provide it?

Nutritional allocation in honey bee larvae

As for the needs of bee larvae, we can divide the bee larvae according to their age, which can be roughly divided into four time periods: egg stage, larval stage (less than 3 days old), pupal stage (before capping). Because the nutrition of bee larvae in these time periods is not the same, let's see what nutrients the bee larvae need in these four time periods and whether we can provide them. As far as temperature and humidity are concerned, this is easy for us to solve, and current equipment can achieve it, but the provision of nutrition is more difficult.

First: Egg stage

Bees do not eat during the egg stage. What they need is suitable temperature and humidity. In terms of this requirement, we can actually provide it, but it needs to be combined with the subsequent needs of the bee larvae.

Second: Larval stage

For the larval stage, it mainly refers to larvae under 3 days old. At this time, the bee larvae mainly feed on royal jelly, which is secreted by worker bees. There are thousands of bee larvae in one beehive. We can solve the humidity and temperature problems here, but if we want to feed thousands of bee larvae one by one, we can do it in theory, but we can't do it in practice, at least not with current technology.

Third: Bee Pupa Stage

During the pupal stage, bee larvae also need suitable temperature and humidity. Bee Tribe believes that these two conditions are not a problem. The problem lies in nutrition, because during the pupal stage, the nutrition of bee larvae is mainly a mixture of pollen, secretions from the maxillary glands of worker bees, and honey. It is impossible to prepare such pollen because we cannot solve the problem of secretions from the maxillary glands of worker bees. Therefore, artificial incubation is impossible during this period.

Fourth: Capping period

The Bee Tribe believes that this is the most suitable time for artificial incubation of bees, and it is also the time when artificial incubation of bees can be used at present. The reason is that during the capping period, the bee larvae have already capped and do not need nutrition. What they need is temperature and humidity. As long as the temperature and humidity are met, even if there is no adult worker bee, these bees will hatch out of the cell normally. Therefore, if you want to artificially incubate bees, only this period is suitable. Although it is possible during the egg stage, when the bee eggs hatch and become larvae, we have no way to provide nutrition, so it seems possible, but it is actually not suitable.

How to artificially incubate

Since capped bees can be artificially hatched, how do we do it? In fact, there are already such incubators on the market. Simply put, we can understand them as a modified version of the chick incubator, because the hatching of chicks also requires corresponding humidity and temperature, and the temperature and humidity of the chick incubator can be adjusted. There is no problem using such an incubator to hatch capped bees.