Animals & Nature

About how many eggs does a healthy honeybee queen lay per day at the peak of the season?

Answer

1,500 eggs

At peak laying, a queen produces roughly her own body weight in eggs every day, and she may lay a million eggs over her lifetime — all fathered by drones she mated with during a brief period early in her life.

Source: Penn State Extension (An Introduction to Queen Honey Bee Development)

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