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Queen bee

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The term "queen bee" is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the beehive. [1]

36 relations: A♭ (musical note), Beehive, Beekeeper, Beeswax, Blue, Cape honey bee, Cloake board, Colony (biology), Drone (bee), Eusociality, G♯ (musical note), Gland, Green, Gyne, Hive frame, Honey bee, Jenter kit, Larva, Laying worker bee, List of honey bee pheromones, Mating yard, Melipona scutellaris, Nuc, Peanut, Pheromone, Queen mandibular pheromone, Red, Royal jelly, Schwarziana quadripunctata, Sheffield, Spermatheca, Swarming (honey bee), Thelytoky, White, Worker bee, Yellow.

A♭ (musical note)

A (A-flat; also called la bémol) is the ninth semitone of the solfège.

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Beehive

A beehive is an enclosed structure man-made in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.

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Beekeeper

A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.

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Beeswax

Beeswax (cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.

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Cape honey bee

The Cape honey bee or Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is a southern South African subspecies of the Western honey bee.

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Cloake board

A Cloake Board is a special piece of equipment used in beekeeping to facilitate raising queen bees.

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Colony (biology)

In biology, a colony is composed of two or more conspecific individuals living in close association with, or connected to, one another.

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Drone (bee)

A drone is a male bee.

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Eusociality

Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.

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G♯ (musical note)

G♯ (G-sharp) or sol dièse is the ninth semitone of the solfège.

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Gland

A gland is a group of cells in an animal's body that synthesizes substances (such as hormones) for release into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

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Green

Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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Gyne

The gyne is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites).

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Hive frame

A hive frame or honey frame is a structural element in a beehive that holds the honeycomb or brood comb within the hive enclosure or box.

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Honey bee

A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.

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Jenter kit

A Jenter kit or Karl Jenter kit is a piece of equipment used by beekeepers to raise large numbers of queen honeybees.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Laying worker bee

A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs usually in the absence of a queen bee (cf gamergates in ants).

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List of honey bee pheromones

The pheromones of the honey bee are mixtures of chemical substances released by individual bees into the hive or environment that cause changes in the physiology and behaviour of other bees.

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Mating yard

A mating yard is a term for an apiary which consists primarily of queen mating nucs and hives which raise drones.

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Melipona scutellaris

Melipona scutellaris is a eusocial stingless bee species of the order Hymenoptera and the genus Melipona.

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Nuc

Nucs, or nucleus colonies, are small honey bee colonies created from larger colonies.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Pheromone

A pheromone (from Ancient Greek φέρω phero "to bear" and hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμή "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Queen mandibular pheromone

Queen mandibular pheromone, or QMP, is a honey bee pheromone produced by the queen and fed to her attendants who share it with the rest of the colony that gives the colony the sense of being queenright.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Royal jelly

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens.

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Schwarziana quadripunctata

Schwarziana quadripunctata is a small, stingless bee found in a stretch of the South American Amazon from Goiás, Brazil, through Paraguay, to Misiones, Argentina.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Spermatheca

The spermatheca (pronounced plural: spermathecae), also called receptaculum seminis (plural: receptacula seminis), is an organ of the female reproductive tract in insects, e.g. bees, some molluscs, oligochaeta worms and certain other invertebrates and vertebrates.

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Swarming (honey bee)

Swarming is the process by which a new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees.

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Thelytoky

Thelytoky (from the Greek thēlys "female" and tokos "birth") is a type of parthenogenesis in which females are produced from unfertilized eggs, as for example in aphids.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light.

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Worker bee

A worker bee is any female (eusocial) bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to a queen, as well.

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Yellow

Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_bee

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