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4 Responses to How does a bee become a queen bee?

1. You need to post this in biology, because it has nothing to do with royalty.

   

   Mary
   September 9, 2013 at 11:07 pm
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2. A queen bee is an adult mated female that is the mother of most if not all bees in a particular hive. Queens developed from larvae selected by worker bees. She develops differently because she is fed a protein-rich secretion from the glands of regular worker bees. A queen bee also is raised in a specially constructed cell. Virgin queen bees seek out queen bee rivals to kill them, so ordinarily there is only one adult mated queen bee to a hive.

   

   Evelyn S
   September 9, 2013 at 11:56 pm
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3. By eating jelly.

   

   nuff
   September 10, 2013 at 12:04 am
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4. The quotation from Wikipedia is correct except for one self-contradiction. As the mention of a “virgin queen” implies, even unmated queens are still queens.

   

   Dancefly
   September 10, 2013 at 12:37 am
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