| LC control no. | sh2012001918 |
|---|---|
| Topical heading | Queen honeybees |
| Variant(s) | Honeybee--Queens Honeybee queens Queen bees (Honeybee) Queens, Honeybee |
| See also | Female honeybees Queens (Insects) Bee culture--Queen rearing |
| Found in | Work cat.: Sanford, M.T. An ultrastructural study of the subepidermal glands of the queen honey bee, 1977. MacDonald, R.L. Studies in sperm migration in the queen honey bee (Apis mellifera L.), 1964. Burley, L.M. The effects of miticides on the reproductive physiology of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and drones, 2007. Dixon, D.P. Factors affecting the production of honey bee queens (Apis mellifera L.) in Manitoba, 1979. Masemene, M.M. Analysis of the mandibular pheromone of living honeybee queens using non-destructive sampling techniques, 2008. Wikipedia, Apr. 30, 2012: Queen bee (The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive. The queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature. There is normally only one adult, mated queen in a hive. The term "queen bee" can be more generally applied to any dominant reproductive female in a colony of a eusocial bee species other than honey bees.) Worker bee (A worker bee is any female eusocial bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to a queen, as well. Worker bees occur in many bee species other than honey bees, but this is by far the most familiar colloquial use of the term. ... In most common bee species, worker bees are infertile and thus never reproduce. They are nevertheless considered female for anatomical and genetic reasons. Genetically, a worker bee does not differ from a queen bee and can even become a laying worker bee, but in most species will produce only male (drone) offspring. Whether a larva becomes a worker or a queen depends on the kind of food it is given after the first three days of its larval form.) Drone (bee) (Drones are male honey bees. They develop from eggs that have not been fertilized, and they cannot sting, since the worker bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ).) Dictionary.com, Apr. 30, 2012 (queen bee: 1. a fertile female bee. 2. a woman who is in a favored or preeminent position.) Henderson's dict. of biological terms, c2000 (queen: a member of the reproductive caste in eusocial and semisocial insects, sometimes, but not always, morphologically different from the workers) |
 |  |  |