Update on the bees.

The bees are doing well. We just put on the second deep a little while ago and we already need to put on a third! I got to see different kinds of cells where the eggs are laid. There were the normal worker bee cells, drone cells (The only boys in the whole hive!), and swarm cells We scraped the swarm cell off. The bees will make about six swarm cells. When they start thinking “Wow this place is getting crowded!” the queen will lay eggs in the swarm cells then take half the hive and leave. The nursery bees (The ones that just take care of the larva and eggs and won’t sting) will then turn them into queens and the first queen to hatch will bite the head off the other queens. If they hatch at the same time or they don’t notice each other for a day or two the queens will fight it out and only one of them will be left alive. After the fight  if the queen isn’t perfect like if she has a torn wing or a broken leg they’ll kill her.   Posted by Maggie