Bees are oviparous, laid by the queen bee, and the eggs can be divided into fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs, which will grow into different bees in the future. It consists of the queen bee, drones, and worker bees. There are many types, such as common bees, giant bees, sand bees, black giant bees, suweilaxi bees, green slave bees, Western bees, and spiritual bees. Among them, the majority of artificially bred bees are mixed breeds, which do not belong to these types.

The queen bee’s economic function is professional egg-laying, bearing the responsibility of reproduction and development. Her body develops very robust, with a fat head and ears, twice the weight of the worker bee, and loses the delicate ‘female’ figure.

During the egg-laying period, the queen bee must be fed royal jelly by the worker bees every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain strong egg-laying ability. The queen bee of the Chinese bee can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day, but the number of eggs laid by the most is more than double that, which is the queen bee of the Italian bee, reaching 1,500 to 2,000 eggs. In terms of weight, the eggs laid every day are about twice the weight of the queen bee herself.

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Bees’ habits

1. Bees are social animals, and each hive is relatively independent, unable to collude with each other. To prevent the invasion of foreign bees from other hives and some other predators, the bees have developed the ability to guard the hive, and the stinger is the most important weapon they use to defend their hive.

2. The bees in the hive rely on their sense of smell to distinguish themselves. There are professional guardians of pure honey at the entrance of the hive. When foreign bees invade, they will engage in fierce battles with the invaders, eventually driving them away or biting them to death. Outside the hive, the bees from two different hives will not interfere with each other, living in harmony in the nectar source or water source.

3. When the queen bee goes out for mating flight, if she mistakenly enters another hive, she will be surrounded and even killed by the worker bees inside. However, if the drones return to the hive, they are not likely to have such an experience. This behavior is inherent in bees and is a form of molecular biology standard to reduce inbreeding.