The pictorial diagram represents the physical transformation in the life cycle of honey bee.
Overall, the cycle comprises of six different stages, from eggs to fully matured bees taking approximately six weeks to complete.
In detail, first of all, a matured female honey bee lays one to two eggs in every three days immediately after couplation and then those eggs are hatched into immatured form of honey bee called nymph after 9 to 10 days in an appropriate environment. Over the next three weeks, the nymphs experience moulting which is a natural process of sheeding or losing of old feathers, hair or skin for the imergence of new.
The first moulting takes place immediately after hatching and then simultaneous moulting occurs in the subsequent 7 and 9 days respectively, resulting into the imergence of young adult bee. Soon after 4 days of young adult satge, they attain complete maturity of bees which is characterized by white stripes on their back after which the cycle continues over and over again.
