Inside nest, inside colony, shots of workers, queens, drones, etc.
or near entrance of a hive.
- 1comb-DSC 4159-61062899-O
352 hits
A queen bee among the workers. - DSC 1630 002
928 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
944 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
914 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
955 hits
Workers working on a freshly build wax comb, with back lighting. - DSC 1653 006
893 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
323 hits - DSC 3857-nasanov glands
277 hits - DSC 3862-guarding
295 hits - DSC 7198washboarding
288 hits - DSD 6426
382 hits - DSD 6429
316 hits - DSD 6436
353 hits - DSD 6439
301 hits - DSD 6440
292 hits
False queen being surrounded by retinue workers. Usually she is also a laying worker. This is from a laying worker colony. - DSD 6443
290 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
284 hits - DSD 6455
290 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
306 hits - DSD 6460
318 hits - comb-DSC 0300-58219825-O
280 hits - comb-DSC 0301-58219679-O
293 hits - comb-DSC 0302-58219835-O
318 hits - comb-DSC 0316-58219727-O
355 hits - comb-DSC 0317-58219672-O
320 hits - comb-DSC 0333-58219716-O
335 hits - comb-DSC 0335-58219771-O
370 hits - comb-DSC 0359-58219785-O
317 hits - comb-DSC 0361-58219624-O
299 hits - comb-DSC 0363-58219681-O
371 hits - comb-DSC 0365-58219666-O
341 hits - comb-DSC 4158-58219646-O
308 hits - comb-DSC 4161-58219732-O
290 hits - comb-DSC 4164-58219747-O
284 hits - comb-DSC 4165-58219652-O
254 hits - comb-DSC 4167-58219573-O
270 hits - comb-DSC 4168-58219693-O
290 hits - comb-DSC 4170-58219658-O
301 hits - comb-DSC 4171-58219581-O
278 hits - comb-DSC 4174-58219701-O
264 hits