The queen bee duel, why 1 all died, instead of both?
First, two queen bees are not common. Do they usually appear alternately or not? Box-splitting period .
Bees can be regarded as matrilineal clans. Among all bees, only the queen bee has reproductive ability, because the different foods she eats (including estrogen) have an influence on her reproductive ability. The queen bee will have three high reproduction periods in her life, all of which occur in June-August every year, and all three high reproduction periods will give birth to the queen bee? The king's egg? . During the same period of laying king's eggs, the queen bee will frantically lay a large number of worker bees. If the normal number of bees in a nest is about 3000, the number of worker bees will be about 4000-4500 during that time.
(queen bee)
After the queen bee lays eggs in the first and second years, she will arrange some worker bees to feed the queen bee and train her feelings. When the queen bee grows up, she will negotiate with the second-generation queen bee to let it leave with some worker bees (drones are usually born now, and their life span is only about 12 days). The amount of bees leaving is about to divide 4000 worker bees into 2000 each and let them breed in other places, in the beekeeper's home, that is? Split boxes? .
(Beekeepers divide boxes for bees)
The queen bee's life span is only three years. From June to August in the third year, the queen bee will give birth to the last one in her life? The king's egg? Will you tell other worker bees while waiting for the new queen bee to grow up? Last words? The last batch of drones will be born in the last two days before the new queen bee pupates, in case the queen bee behind has no experience and doesn't know how to give birth to drones. After doing this, the old queen began to wait for death, and when the new queen grew up, she would not attack the old queen.
Second, will there be some worker bees after the fight? Escort? .
The duel between queen bees appeared in the queen bees in the previous two years. There are many reasons for the duel, which can be summarized as follows: the bees are unevenly distributed and the surrounding flowers are small. If the two generations of queen bees can't be separated peacefully because of the number of bees, then they will start a duel. The result of the duel is definitely death, and the probability is the new king.
(The newly grown queen bee is lighter in color)
Because of the new king? Bee pulse? Not as wide as the old queen bee, and not as experienced as the old queen bee. If you want to usurp the throne, you will usually lose miserably before you know your own strength. Even if a bee can survive, with long-term companionship, the worker bees in the hive will protect the old queen bee. Although blood pressure prevents them from attacking the new king, there is prejudice. Sometimes the old queen will attack the new queen by preventing the new king from moving. Here, the failure of the new queen bee is doomed. As for the sides, the whole nest of bees is cold.
(worker bee in the side frame)
So the queen bee is a special constitution. It is the only bee in the whole hive that can give birth to children. Worker bees always choose to keep one when they fight. As for each other's death, it has nothing to do with them.