Bee family – bee society, consisting of one inseminated mother, tens of thousands of worker bees, a certain number of drones (during the summer), and also developing in the brood cells.
June
bees at all stages of development, from egg to pupa. A distinction is made between unsealed brood – open, early stage and capped-indoor, later stage of development.
The bee mother – Queen
one of the two forms of female bees. It develops from a fertilized egg and is fed whole life with royal jelly, dzięki czemu rozwija się u niej w pełni układ rozrodczy i w konsekwencji zdolność do kopulacji i rozmnażania. Matka pszczela kopuluje tylko raz w życiu, during the mating flight, with approx. 8…10 drones and keeps all the semen in the seed reservoir. It can red (składać jaja przez ok. 5 years. Matka pszczela wytwarza tzw. parent substance, which determines the proper functioning of the swarm. There is only one queen in a bee family, but occasionally, briefly there may be two or more.
Worker bee
one of the two forms of female bees. It does not have the ability to reproduce, only occasionally, w szczególnych okolicznościach może składać jaja niezapłodnione. Pszczoła robotnica dzięki swojej budowie anatomicznej i morfologicznej jest zdolna do wykonywania wszystkich czynności w ulu: cleaning, feeding the brood and the mother, exuding wax, building honeycombs, collecting nectar, pollen and putty, ventilating the hive, obrony rodziny. Pszczoły robotnice żyją ok. 30…35 days, wintering approx. 150 days. A bee colony counts from 10 thousand. do 100 thousand. worker bees.
Drone
male bee. It develops from an unfertilized egg. At the age of 2…3 weeks, it is sexually mature and fled for mating flight, where in the air, ok. 30 m above the ground copulates with a queen bee, then dies. In a normal bee colony there are approx. 2 thousand. drones. They appear in the spring. After all, these years, that did not die during the mating flights are removed from the hive.
