Honey bee (Apis cerana japonica) 

毎年恒例の分蜂の季節 
今年はお向かいさんの庭に集結 
古巣から巣立った女王と、腹一杯に蜜を蓄えた働きバチ達 
行先が決まりつつあるのか中央では
距離と方角を伝える八の字ダンスがしきりと行われ中。
それにしてもこんなに小さい分蜂群は初めて、、、頑張ってほしい

Annual bee season every year. This year we gather in Oppa’s garden. The queen nested from the old nest and worked bees who stored honey on their belly.

Whether the destination is being determined or in the middle.

The eight character dance that conveys the distance and direction is being done quietly.

Even so, for the first time this small group of bee …. Please do your best.

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used a nutrition for
larvae and queen bees. When worker bees decide to make a new queen
because the old one is either dying or dead, they choose several larvae
and feed them royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This
triggers the larvae to develop with queen morphology, including fully
developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.