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Posts Tagged ‘beehive’

What’s happening in the hive? How a queen develops

By kiley | August 15, 2018
larvae in honeycomb

Where is the queen is probably the No. 1 question that we are asked about the indoor bee hive. You can read a little bit about that here, but the next question often comes up as “What makes a queen bee?” The short answer is, queens are fed royal jelly which makes them different from Read More »

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What’s happening in the hive? There aren’t any drones

By kiley | August 8, 2018 | 2

Are all the bees in the indoor beehive worker bees? The answer right now is 99.99999 percent of them are. All of the bees in our indoor beehive are female worker bees, except for the queen bee. There is one queen bee in each beehive, but the other 50,000-60,000 bees in the hive are all Read More »

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Why can’t I see the queen bee in the indoor bee hive?

By kiley | October 9, 2017 | 1

“Where is the queen bee?” That’s usually the first question we get when people see the indoor bee hive at the Dickinson County Nature Center. The queen bee is pretty identifiable. Her abdomen — the longest part of her body — is almost twice the length of a worker bee. However, we almost never see Read More »

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