The Hive Timeline

• 1-3 Days : Bees are still eggs

• 5 Days: Larva (The Feeding stage)

• 6-12 days: Pupa - Stage of metamorphosis, lasting about 12 days

• 21 days: Adult Worker bee emerges

A closer look:

• 1-3 Days: Housekeeping, young bees clean up the hive

• 4-12 Days: Nurse Bee, nursing other bees and developing their hypo-pharyngael gland

• 7-12 Days: Attending the Queen

• 8-17 Days: Comb Building, developing their wax gland

• 12-18 Days: Receiver Bees

• 12-18 Days: Fanning, strengthening their wing muscles

• 18+ Days: Guard Bee (Increasing their Venom Gland)

• 18-21 Days: Foraging

The spend 3 weeks in the cell and 3 weeks foraging.

Festooning: All the bees line up grabbing each others legs to make a line from one frame to another drawing wax to the empty frame.