If it gets too cold, we have a hard time surviving because, unlike temperate bees, we don't store lots of extra honey for winter. Because of our love of warm weather, we haven't spread south far beyond Argentina and it is estimated that we won't migrate further north than the northern United States. I'm a fertilized egg. This means I'm female. If I hadn't been fertilized, I'd be a drone egg.
Drones are the males.
The queen lays fertilized eggs when the opening of the hexagon chamber is a certain size. She will lay an unfertilized egg if the opening is a little wider. From what I've heard, she prefers to lay fertilized eggs. Nevertheless, she is very good at doing what the worker bees want her to do. Since I've been an egg now for a few days, I'm going to hatch and enter the larvae stage.