MGMT 3610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Worker Bee, Royal Jelly
4 Jan 2021
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Meta: the queen bee is the strongest and most important part of the colony. Despite the fear of being stung by bees, not all of them can sting. Male bees are unable to sting, and only the female bees sting. Queen bees are the adult, reproducing females of a bee colony. They are the mothers of their respective colonies, having laid the eggs that created most of the bees. The queen bee is known amongst the bees due to pheromones that she emits. The bees recognize this odor and defer to her for it. As a queen ages, she emits fewer pheromones. Yes, queen bees sting, although their stingers are different from those of the other female bees. Worker bees have barbed stingers this means that, if they sting, the stinger gets stuck in the mammal"s skin to continue pumping poison. It also means that the bee is stuck.
