Did a quick eyeball check of the hives yesterday, the Italians are coming and going as normal, but it looks like the Carnalians are starting to circle, it has been almost 43 days from when the hives were packaged so the new young bees will be starting to forage soon.
It takes 43 days for a worker to be laid as an egg to becoming a forager.
Here is the life cycle and job cycle of honeybees:
Stage Worker Queen Drone
Hatching 3 3 3
Cell capped 8 8 10
Becomes a pupa 11 10 14
Becomes an Adult 20 15 12.5
Emerges from cell 21 16 24
Jobs Age
clean cells 1-2 days
feed older larvae 3-5 days
feed youngest larvae 6-11 days
produce wax/build 12-17 days
guard duty 18-21 days
forager 22 days +
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