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20 years ago, Page & Peng wrote:
> Workers typically live 3-6 weeks during the spring and summer and can live about 4 months during the winter. Anecdotes of queens living 2-3 years are not unusual, though they normally live less than a year in commercial hives.
They give a maximum for honey bee queens as:
> 8 years as reported by Bozina (1961). However, this reported life span is far greater than those reported in other similar studies. For queen ants, maximum recorded life spans vary from 9-10 weeks for Monomorium pharoanis to 30 years for Pogonomyrmex owyheei.
Page Jr, R. E., & Peng, C. Y. S. (2001). Aging and development in social insects with emphasis on the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. Experimental gerontology, 36(4-6), 695-711.
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