The Pros And Cons Of Honeybees

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It would be detrimental for honeybees to work independently within a colony for the bee population. Starting at six days old, young bees start to feed younger larvae in their hive. The adult bees do other tasks such as scavenging for the other honeybees. In a hive, there is no simple hierarchy, unlike human beings who have business hierarchies for large businesses. Each bee does something to benefit another bee. The queen may be valuable, because there is only one in each hive, but the queen does not rule the hive. Worker bees send orders by signaling to the queen bee about when to fly in swarms and move elsewhere, which is called piping. Although she is called the “queen bee” the queen bee is not the queen of the hive.
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