AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A queen bee is an adult, mated female that lives in a beehive. The healthy, fertile queens can lay eggs constantly without a break. The queen bee can lay up to 2000 eggs in a single day.

Detailed explanation-2: –The queen bee: usually only one per hive is the only female bee to have fully functional ovaries and can lay up to 2000 eggs per day at a rate of 5-6 per minute during a hives build up period, usually in spring.

Detailed explanation-3: -A successfully mated queen bee can produce approximately 500, 000 eggs over the course of her lifetime. During the spring and summer, a queen bee lays an average of 1, 200 to 1, 500 eggs per day. A real go-getter can lay up to 2, 000 eggs per day! (Some sources say that this number can even reach 3, 000).

Detailed explanation-4: -Queen bees have the shortest developmental time, running 15.5 to 16 days from the time the egg is placed into the cell to the new queen’s emergence from her queen cell.

Detailed explanation-5: -Honey Bee Information: A Queen Honey Bees sole function is to serve as the reproducer. A well-mated and well-fed queen of quality stock can lay about 1, 500 eggs per day during the spring build-up-more than her own body weight in eggs every day.