Do bumble bee's give birth to their little baby bee's or do they lay eggs?

A very special girl named Kim says she witnessed the bumble bee in prime action of giving birth to her little offspring bee's but Sgt.W.Palmer does not believe this can occur? Who's side are you on?


Disclaimer: This is not a jokeDo bumble bee's give birth to their little baby bee's or do they lay eggs?
There are not any sides to choose. The facts are the truth. Either you know them or you don't.





Bees are insects. Insects lay eggs. The eggs become larvae. Then the bees grow through stage called pupa. Eventually becoming an adult. We biologist call it complete metamorphosis. Bumble bees (workers) do take very good care of eggs, larvae and growing bees.





Biology and Life Cycles of Native Bees


http://www.xerces.org/Pollinator_Insect_鈥?/a>Do bumble bee's give birth to their little baby bee's or do they lay eggs?
they lay eggs
Bumblebees (also spelled bumble bee, also known as humblebee) are flying insects of the genus Bombus in the family Apidae.





Bumblebees are social insects that are characterized by black and yellow body hairs, often in bands, a commonality among the majority of the species of Bombus. However, some species are known to have orange or even red on their bodies, or may be entirely black.[1] Another obvious (but not unique) characteristic is the soft nature of the long, branched setae, called pile, that covers their entire body, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They are best distinguished from similarly large, fuzzy bees by the form of the female hind leg, which is modified to form a corbicula; a shiny concave surface that is bare, but surrounded by a fringe of hairs used to transport pollen (in similar bees, the hind leg is completely hairy, and pollen grains are wedged into the hairs for transport).





Like their relatives the honey bees, bumblebees feed on nectar and gather pollen to feed their young.





The life cycle of bumble bees is very simple. The fertilized queen emerges from her hibernation site in the ground in early spring (in Switzerland around March-April) and first forages on flowers to develop her ovaries. Then, she selects a nest site and collects pollen to lay her first eggs. After several weeks, the first of her daughters emerge from the brood. This is the first generation of workers that now help their mother to develop the colony still further. As a result, the colony grows in worker numbers over the summer until, some time in July or August, reproduction takes place. Then, new young queens are raised instead of workers and, at the same time, males are produced. These sexual forms leave the colony to mate and the fertilized queen goes into hibernation. The males all die before the onset of winter. Similarly, soon after the males and young queens have left the nest, the old mother queen and the colony perish.





In short : they lay eggs.
As much as it pains me to say so


Sgt Palmer is correct


bees lay eggs in their hive


these eggs hatch into larvae and the larvae DEVELOP into the bees !!


A live birth for bees is fantasy and simply not so !!
the previous answers are correct.





insects lay eggs.





only mammals have live births.