Explain in brief about queen bee.

Explanation

QUEEN: It is the individual in the colony, It is a fertile, diploid female, one per bee hive and the egg layer of the colony. She lives for about five years and her only function is to lay eggs. The queen bee during its nuptial flight receives sperms from a drone and stores in the spermatecae and lays two types of eggs, the fertilised and unfertilised. All fertilised eggs develop into females. All the larvae developing from the fertilised eggs are fed with the royal jelly (vitamin and nutrient rich secretion from the glands in the hypopharynx of the nurse workers) for the first 4 days only: Afterwards royal jelly is fed only to the bee that is bound to develop into next queen, whereas the other larvae fed. on bee bread (honey and pollen) become workers (sterile females).