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Definition of queen bee in English: queen beenoun 1The single reproductive female in a hive or colony of honeybees. 蜂王,蜂后 Example sentencesExamples - Meet bee keeper, Matt Moran and see the queen bee, her drones and all her worker bees making honey.
- Produced by glands in worker bees' heads, royal jelly is fed to larvae and the adult queen bee.
- The trade and transportation of queen bees and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill.
- He explained that a hive of bees consists of a queen bee, a few hundred drone bees and the remainder are workers.
- Under the agreement, third-generation apiarist Steven S. Bernard is authorized to raise and sell pure-Russian breeder queen bees on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Erland Omand plans to sell traditional clover honey through outlets across the UK's as well as breeding pedigree queen bees for sale across the world.
- Simple - the queen bee and drones that are hard at it both contain the genetic constituents required to continue the worker line.
- He intends to build up a stock of specifically bred queen bees for export nationally and internationally.
- A Royal beekeeper rushed to the rescue when a queen bee sent a buzz of excitement around Windsor Castle.
- In nature, a queen bee will mate with as many as 20 drones.
- They said the varroa mite, likely introduced to New Zealand five years ago on an illegally imported queen bee, has decimated feral bees, and orchard and home fruit trees need help.
- Clynderwen beekeeper, Tom Pegg, quickly responded to an urgent phone call and, after calming the bees with a fine mist of water, he was able to transfer the queen bee into a box.
- To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants.
- The hive is run by a queen bee, who can live for several years.
- That lasts the queen bee about three years laying up to 5000 eggs a day.
- Our scientists surmised that the bulk of any emotional consideration was left to the queens, who ruled the Zylon like a queen bee does her hive.
- The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony.
- There is usually one queen bee and some 40,000 to 50,000 worker bees per hive in summertime.
- While this may be true for a drone bee mating for the first time with a queen bee, or the Pacific salmon which spawns once and dies, is it true of humans?
- But the third factor is undeniably true: EHB queen bees mate disproportionately with African drones, resulting in rapid displacement of EHB genes in a colony.
- 1.1informal A woman who has a dominant or controlling position in a particular group or sphere.
〈非正式〉女首领,女性领导,女强人 Sarah was the queen bee of the Society circuit Example sentencesExamples - This author seems to be the queen bee of this niche.
- She was always the one who knew which game to play, she taught most of the class how to tie their shoelaces, and she was the queen bee of her group of friends.
- The father's extramarital activities are beginning to wear on his marriage, and the mother is a basket case trapped in the iron grip of her domineering queen bee of a mother.
- She is the fashion correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and by the lights of the arcane pecking order of this bizarre business is accepted as the queen bee.
- I think she liked being the queen bee surrounded by men.
- This is what passes as my social life; I am such the queen bee, don't you think?
- Plus, Sam, the queen bee, went out with one of the guys who used to sit with us, and has stuck around since he left.
- Earlier that day, grinning happily, she had declared that she felt like the queen bee.
- At 16, she is queen bee among this new breed of teen girls.
- The queen bee herself will touch down in Montreal this Friday, and even though I wasn't able to chat with her, I can still make sure you all know that this is one of the best right here.
- The source of her insecurity is Evie, a manipulative queen bee.
- The blond is Hadley, the queen bee of a trio of rich college girls on a campus in North Carolina.
- One day the queen bee will fall, Annie, and we'll take her place together.
- You frequently attend baseball games just to imagine that the spectators are all bees and you are their queen bee.
- ‘How considerate,’ the queen bee replied icily.
- It did get tiring sometimes being the queen bee.
- And the queen bee back in high school is here too.
- Washington DC is a matriarchal society and I am the queen bee.
- The role of Eva Phillips, the queen bee who achieves her selfish aims by stinging any rivals around her that might challenge her supremacy, seemed tailor-made for Crawford.
- She came to beauty after a career as a Fleet Street fashion editor and has been queen bee of the lip gloss at Vogue for four years.
Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
Definition of queen bee in US English: queen beenounˌkwēn ˈbēˌkwin ˈbi 1The single reproductive female in a hive or colony of honeybees. 蜂王,蜂后 Example sentencesExamples - The trade and transportation of queen bees and swarms of bees without a certificate of origin and a veterinary certificate would be prohibited under the bill.
- While this may be true for a drone bee mating for the first time with a queen bee, or the Pacific salmon which spawns once and dies, is it true of humans?
- In nature, a queen bee will mate with as many as 20 drones.
- Erland Omand plans to sell traditional clover honey through outlets across the UK's as well as breeding pedigree queen bees for sale across the world.
- They said the varroa mite, likely introduced to New Zealand five years ago on an illegally imported queen bee, has decimated feral bees, and orchard and home fruit trees need help.
- The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony.
- The hive is run by a queen bee, who can live for several years.
- Clynderwen beekeeper, Tom Pegg, quickly responded to an urgent phone call and, after calming the bees with a fine mist of water, he was able to transfer the queen bee into a box.
- He intends to build up a stock of specifically bred queen bees for export nationally and internationally.
- That lasts the queen bee about three years laying up to 5000 eggs a day.
- Simple - the queen bee and drones that are hard at it both contain the genetic constituents required to continue the worker line.
- To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants.
- He explained that a hive of bees consists of a queen bee, a few hundred drone bees and the remainder are workers.
- Produced by glands in worker bees' heads, royal jelly is fed to larvae and the adult queen bee.
- Meet bee keeper, Matt Moran and see the queen bee, her drones and all her worker bees making honey.
- There is usually one queen bee and some 40,000 to 50,000 worker bees per hive in summertime.
- A Royal beekeeper rushed to the rescue when a queen bee sent a buzz of excitement around Windsor Castle.
- Our scientists surmised that the bulk of any emotional consideration was left to the queens, who ruled the Zylon like a queen bee does her hive.
- Under the agreement, third-generation apiarist Steven S. Bernard is authorized to raise and sell pure-Russian breeder queen bees on a first-come, first-served basis.
- But the third factor is undeniably true: EHB queen bees mate disproportionately with African drones, resulting in rapid displacement of EHB genes in a colony.
- 1.1informal A woman who has a dominant or controlling position in a particular group or sphere.
〈非正式〉女首领,女性领导,女强人 Sarah was the queen bee of the Society circuit Example sentencesExamples - It did get tiring sometimes being the queen bee.
- Washington DC is a matriarchal society and I am the queen bee.
- One day the queen bee will fall, Annie, and we'll take her place together.
- Earlier that day, grinning happily, she had declared that she felt like the queen bee.
- The role of Eva Phillips, the queen bee who achieves her selfish aims by stinging any rivals around her that might challenge her supremacy, seemed tailor-made for Crawford.
- She came to beauty after a career as a Fleet Street fashion editor and has been queen bee of the lip gloss at Vogue for four years.
- She is the fashion correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and by the lights of the arcane pecking order of this bizarre business is accepted as the queen bee.
- This is what passes as my social life; I am such the queen bee, don't you think?
- The father's extramarital activities are beginning to wear on his marriage, and the mother is a basket case trapped in the iron grip of her domineering queen bee of a mother.
- This author seems to be the queen bee of this niche.
- The source of her insecurity is Evie, a manipulative queen bee.
- At 16, she is queen bee among this new breed of teen girls.
- The blond is Hadley, the queen bee of a trio of rich college girls on a campus in North Carolina.
- Plus, Sam, the queen bee, went out with one of the guys who used to sit with us, and has stuck around since he left.
- The queen bee herself will touch down in Montreal this Friday, and even though I wasn't able to chat with her, I can still make sure you all know that this is one of the best right here.
- She was always the one who knew which game to play, she taught most of the class how to tie their shoelaces, and she was the queen bee of her group of friends.
- And the queen bee back in high school is here too.
- ‘How considerate,’ the queen bee replied icily.
- You frequently attend baseball games just to imagine that the spectators are all bees and you are their queen bee.
- I think she liked being the queen bee surrounded by men.
Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, mistress, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
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