Inside nest, inside colony, shots of workers, queens, drones, etc.
or near entrance of a hive.
1comb-DSC 4159-61062899-O
345 hits
A queen bee among the workers.
DSC 1630 002
924 hits
A queen is seen laying an egg inside a worker cell. Usually (as far I can tell, 90% of time) she orients her head toward gravity when she is laying eggs. Not sure why she does this.
DSC 1631 003
943 hits
A queen is seen laying an egg inside a worker cell. Usually (as far I can tell, 90% of time) she orients her head toward gravity when she is laying eggs. Not sure why she does this.
DSC 1638 004
910 hits
A queen is seen laying an egg inside a worker cell. Usually (as far I can tell, 90% of time) she orients her head toward gravity when she is laying eggs. Not sure why she does this. Notice the "retinue" (a circle of workers) surrounding her.
DSC 1642 005
952 hits
Workers working on a freshly build wax comb, with back lighting.
DSC 1653 006
891 hits
A yellow jacket ventured inside a honey bee colony, to steal honey, ends up attacked by honey bees. This ones to be half dead already.
DSC 3843-nasanov glands
316 hits
DSC 3857-nasanov glands
273 hits
DSC 3862-guarding
290 hits
DSC 7198washboarding
286 hits
DSD 6426
380 hits
DSD 6429
314 hits
DSD 6436
350 hits
DSD 6439
299 hits
DSD 6440
289 hits
False queen being surrounded by retinue workers. Usually she is also a laying worker. This is from a laying worker colony.
DSD 6443
288 hits
At the center of the photo is a worker laying eggs (laying worker) who also happens to be a "false queen", or pseudo-queen. She has similar pheromone mixtures as a laying queen (you never see virgin queens with retinue), hence the name. Not all laying workers are false queens, only very few of them become so "good" in queen-likeness that they get treated the same as a real queen.
DSD 6448
281 hits
DSD 6455
288 hits
Multiple eggs per cell signify workers are laying eggs. This happens when a colony becomes "hopelessly queenless" -- i.e. no queen and no young larvae (<3 day old) to raise another queen. It takes 7-10 days for a colony without open brood and no queen to do this.
DSD 6458
303 hits
DSD 6460
315 hits
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277 hits
comb-DSC 0301-58219679-O
289 hits
comb-DSC 0302-58219835-O
315 hits
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352 hits
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317 hits
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330 hits
comb-DSC 0335-58219771-O
367 hits
comb-DSC 0359-58219785-O
314 hits
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296 hits
comb-DSC 0363-58219681-O
367 hits
comb-DSC 0365-58219666-O
338 hits
comb-DSC 4158-58219646-O
304 hits
comb-DSC 4161-58219732-O
285 hits
comb-DSC 4164-58219747-O
281 hits
comb-DSC 4165-58219652-O
251 hits
comb-DSC 4167-58219573-O
268 hits
comb-DSC 4168-58219693-O
288 hits
comb-DSC 4170-58219658-O
298 hits
comb-DSC 4171-58219581-O
275 hits
comb-DSC 4174-58219701-O
262 hits