A queen bee is the single egg-laying female a colony is built around. Find the queen bee.
She lays up to two thousand eggs a day and lives years where a worker lives weeks. A colony without a queen bee will raise a new one from an ordinary egg within days.
1nounqueen beeThe single egg-laying female a colony is built around.
“The queen bee was marked with a spot of paint every spring.”
queen bee is an insect.
Queen plus bee; Middle English called her the king of bees, since nobody knew otherwise.
From queen + bee. Compare Middle English kyng of been (“queen bee”) literally “king of bees”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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