Kulinarisches – Literarisches – Fragmentarisches

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~200 or 0

20.000-200.000

2-5 years
depending on sperm

21-32 days spring
90 days summer
or until mating
0 winter

20-40 days summer
(worked to death);
140 days winter

female

male

sterile female

-mate with males
-lay 1500 eggs/day
= 200.000 eggs/year
-secrete pheromone =
9-hydroxydecenoic acid
HOOC=C-C-C-C-C-C-COH-C

-mate with young queen

-make comb
-tend larvae
-tend young drones
-tend queen
-clean hive
-gather nectar
-gather pollen
-gather propolis
-evaporate nectar
-cap cells
-defend hive
-starve drones
-lay drone eggs
-move larvae for
making new queen