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Denninmi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-11 09:17 AM
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3. No, mainy female.
A normal colony consists of the queen, which is a fertile female who lays eggs. The queen's reproductive system can lay either diploid or haploid eggs. The diploid eggs become the worker bees, which become sterile females unless fed "royal jelly," a hormone secretion, at the right stage of development as a grub. The haploid eggs become drones, males, whose only purpose is to mate with a fertilize the handful of new queens produced each season.

A normal colony consists of the single queen, anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 sterile female workers, and a couple of hundred male drones during the brief summer mating season.

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