The description illustrates the honey bee's wheel of life. The life cycle of the honey bee begins when the queen bee lays an egg; the queen lay 1 or 2 eggs every three days. From spring to summer, they can lay approximately two thousand eggs. Honey bees develop in four life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. We can see that the life cycle lasts between 34 and 36 days. Eggs hatch after 9-10 days become larva. They keep growing in size and shed their skin 3 times as it grows. The first time is 5 days after the egg hatches, then day 7 and one more time on day 9. The total pupa development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens. After a total of 30 to 31 days from the start of the cycle, the young adult honey bee emerges from its final moulting stage, and it takes only 4 days more to reach maturity.
The description illustrates the honey bee's wheel of
life
. The
life
cycle
of the honey bee
begins
when the queen bee lays an egg; the queen lay 1 or 2 eggs every three days. From spring to summer, they can lay approximately two thousand eggs. Honey bees develop in four
life
cycle
phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. We can
see
that the
life
cycle
lasts between 34 and 36 days. Eggs hatch after 9-10 days become larva. They
keep
growing in size and shed their skin 3
times
as it grows. The
first
time
is 5 days after the egg hatches, then day 7 and one more
time
on day 9. The total pupa development
time
varies a bit among the three castes of bees, 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens. After a total of 30 to 31 days from the
start
of the
cycle
, the young adult honey bee emerges from its final
moulting
stage, and it takes
only
4 days more to reach maturity.