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Queen Bee

The queen bee is a female, mother of most bees in the honey bee colony.  When this bee is still a larva, it is particularly selected and specifically fed to be a maturely mated bee.  This young larva is especially fed with royal jelly from the heads of its bee workers.  A regular worker bee is only served some royal jelly for the first few days while the queen bee is continuously fed with royal jelly.  It will soon become a sexually mature bee because of this unique diet.  A queen bee lays about 1500 eggs a day.

The Queen Bee



HARD LIFE

                      Just to collect one kg of honey, bees must collect nectar from almost 4 million flowers.
                      In the absence of enough food in winter, many animals spend the time in Hibernation, a kind of sleep close to death. Bats, ground Squirrels and and Polar Bears are known to Hibernate.
                       Some ribbon worms (nemertinea) absorb their own body as food till 95 percent of the body is digested, when food is not available. When food is plenty, the lost tissue is restorted!

A Hibernated Polar Bear