What is the difference between a drone and a worker bee? All drones are male honey bees, while all worker bees are female. Don’t get fooled by their names, though, because drones and worker bees are changing and breaking the traditional gender roles. For most animals, male and female co...
It usually consists of thequeen bee, a fertilized female capable of laying a thousand or more eggs per day; from a few to 60,000 sexually undeveloped females, theworkerbees; and from none to 1,000 male bees, ordrones. The female of most species of bees is equipped with a venomous ...
Our study provides important insights into the possible role of miRNAs in shaping the conditional phenotypes associated with male and female castes inApis melliferaand the associated flexible behaviours that arise from them in response to the integration of environmental and genomic signals. The distinct...
Honeybees are vital pollinators, playing a key role in the reproduction of flowering plants. Approximately one-third of the world’s food supply depends on pollinators, with bees being the most important contributors. They transfer pollen from the male parts (anthers) to the female parts (stig...
Another kind of bee is the drone(雄蜂).Drones are male bees,and their job is to fly with the queen bee and mate with her.After the queen mates,the worker bees drive the drones away.The drones then starve to death. The third kind of bee is the queen.Each hive...
Bumblebee Vs. Honey Bee Pollination Pollination is the transfer of pollen, containing the male gamete of a plant, from the anthers where it is produced to the receptive stigma, the female part of the same or another plant of the same species. This process results in fertilization, and sexua...
Indeed, variation in the queen's mating and reproductive state is associated with significant changes in her pheromone profiles, and these different pheromone profiles elicit different behavioral and physiological responses in female workers. Here we evaluate behavioral responses of male drones to the ...
that colonies adopt condition-dependent strategies of reproductive investment, which would affect the mating success of other colonies22. This variability does not alleviate the need for coordination between colonies in the timing of male and female reproductives; rather colonies that overproduce drones ...
In this study, we investigated whether differences in the reproductive biology of honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens and laying workers are reflected in their eggs. We first tested the capacity of queen- and worker-laid male eggs to withstand dry conditions, by incubating samples at 30.0, 74.9,...
It is possible that our study investigating queen flights cannot be directly compared to these studies due to differences among investigations regarding female caste (queen versus worker), model species (honey bee versus bumble bee), experimental treatment (neonicotinoids thiamethoxam and clothianidin vs....