Why can the queen bee live so long?

In the colony, the queen bee gets the most abundant nutrition, rarely goes out, and has little chance to meet natural enemies. Occasionally, foreign enemies come to invade, and the worker bees try their best to protect it from harm. Therefore, the life span of queen bee is longer than that of similar individuals.

nbsp？ Compared with ordinary bees, queen bees live longer. Why? Let's talk about why the queen bee lives so long.

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In the bee colony, the queen bee gets the most abundant nutrition (such as bee milk or royal jelly) and seldom goes out, so the chance of meeting natural enemies is very small. Occasionally, foreign enemies come to invade, and the worker bees try their best to protect it from harm. Therefore, the life span of queen bee is longer than that of similar individuals. Most of the same individuals live for a few months, rarely more than a year, but the queen bee lives for five, six or even more than ten years.

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The queen bee is a female individual who can lay eggs. She keeps laying eggs and reproducing. The living conditions of bees are quite special. They don't live separately, but thousands of members live together to form a large group. People call this kind of life group life. Any member who leaves the group can't live alone. In this large group, each member has a proper division of labor, and everyone works together to maintain group life. For example, a bee colony basically has three kinds of members: one is called worker bee, which is female but can't reproduce, and has the largest number, specializing in nesting, collecting food, raising offspring, taking care of the queen bee, preventing enemies, etc. One is male, the number is small, a group of about dozens to hundreds; There is also a female, that is, the queen bee, with the least number, and only one in a group is mature enough to lay eggs.

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The queen bee is relatively large, at least twice or twice as large as its peers. Its main function is to reproduce and maintain group life. In the bee colony, the queen bee gets the most abundant nutrition (such as bee milk or royal jelly) and seldom goes out, so the chance of meeting natural enemies is very small. Occasionally, foreign enemies come to invade, and the worker bees try their best to protect it from harm. Therefore, the life span of queen bee is longer than that of similar individuals. Most of the same individuals live for a few months, rarely more than a year, but the queen bee lives for five, six or even more than ten years.

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The queen bee has a strong ability to lay eggs. It is observed that a queen bee lays more than 1000 eggs every day in the honey-rich season. As long as the weather is good and the honey source is sufficient, this spawning ability can be maintained for an intensive period (about ten days or a month). The queen bee is like a "machine" for laying eggs, which can lay eggs continuously; Having a "machine" for laying eggs in a swarm of bees is enough to maintain the strong advantage of the swarm.

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Many people try to let several queen bees live together in a nest. After a certain period of training, domestication and cultivation, several queen bees can live together in a colony. There are also several successful examples in China. However, the superiority of several queen bees living in a nest needs further comparative observation.