• Question: How do bees make badys

    Asked by anon-224542 to Scott on 21 Nov 2019.
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      Scott Dwyer answered on 21 Nov 2019:


      The queen lays all the eggs in the colony.
      She will go on a mating flight and mate with several drones (males) in the air and then she stores the sperm. Bees are quite cool in that if the queen lays a fertilised egg it will become a worker and if she lays an unfertilised egg it will become a male.

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