Usually the nests have a common entrance, but each individual has its own brood cells with its egg.

The nest may have one to multiple individual brood cells.

Drone brood cells are larger than the cells of female worker bees.

After eggs hatch from the 30 to 50 brood cells, the queen feeds the young larvae for about 18 to 20 days.

As with the case of many bees, larva grow extremely rapidly when in their brood cells.

Queens are not raised in the typical horizontal brood cells of the honeycomb.

The adult female mites invade the brood cells of a honeycomb and lay eggs.

Male and female mites mate within the brood cell.

They must have emerged from the brood cells in late February or early March, when he was away.

There are approximately two or more cicadas to each brood cell.