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Depicted in the given picture are the stages involved in the life cycle of the honey bee.

As can
be seen from the illustration, it is evident that the whole process takes 34-36 days and there
are 6 main steps from the hatching of the egg to the shedding stages and a mature adult bee.

To begin with the first stage, female bees usually lay one or two eggs every three days. Thus,
after a stretch of nine or ten days, the eggs hatch and appear nymph. In the next step after
hatching, the nymph molts up to 3 times as it grows in size.

Looking into molting steps, This occurs five days after the nymph emerges from the eggs, then
sixteen days after it hatches. Eventually, after the process of molting skin is absolutely
completed, the young adult bee emerges and spends relatively 4 days growing to full maturity.

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