Honey Bee Biology: Understanding Your Colony

Honey Bee Biology: Understanding Your ColonyUnderstanding honey bee biology helps beekeepers make better management decisions — from swarm prevention to disease recognition to understanding seasonal behaviour.Growing GuideA honey bee colony consists of: one queen (the only reproductive female, living 2–5 years, laying up to 2,000 eggs per day at peak spring production); 20,000–80,000 worker bees (non-reproductive females who live 6 weeks in summer, 5–6 months in winter, and perform all h…