queen bee
101queen — queenless, adj. queenlike, adj. /kween/, n. 1. a female sovereign or monarch. 2. the wife or consort of a king. 3. a woman, or something personified as a woman, that is foremost or preeminent in any respect: a movie queen; a beauty queen; Athens …
102Queen excluder — In beekeeping the queen excluder is a selective barrier inside the beehive that allows worker bees but not the larger queens and drones to traverse the barrier. The queen excluder is either a sheet of perforated metal or plastic or a wire grid in …
103Bee tree — A bee tree is a tree in which a colony of honey bees makes its home. A colony of bees may live in a bee tree for many years. Most bee trees have a large inner hollow, often with an upper and lower entrance. Colonies in trees have fixed comb, so… …
104queen — [[t]kwin[/t]] n. 1) gov a female sovereign or monarch 2) gov the wife or consort of a king 3) a woman, or something personified as a woman, preeminent in some respect: a beauty queen; Athens, the queen of the Aegean[/ex] 4) off cvb sts sl. a) usu …
105bee candy — noun A manufactured food for bees, used by bee keepers Connected with one corner of the cage is a small tube several inches in length which in caging a queen for introduction, is filled with bee candy …
106worker-bee — bee that serves the queen bee, drone …
107European honey bee — Taxobox name = Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) image caption = Honey bee approaching a Milk Thistle flowerhead regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Apocrita superfamilia = Apoidea familia =… …
108Honey bee — For other uses, see Honey bee (disambiguation). This article refers collectively to all true honey bees; for the common domesticated honey bee, see European honey bee. Honeybees Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent …
109Africanized bee — Killer bee redirects here. For other uses, see Killer bees (disambiguation). Africanized honey bee Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …
110Drone (bee) — A drone bee. Drone bees are characterized by their larger eyes, larger bodies (though the queen is usually even bigger), and stouter abdomens. Drones are male honey bees. They develop from eggs that have not been fertilized, and they cannot sting …
