What determines if a queen bee produces another queen bee or just drone/worker bees? When a queen produces a queen, is there some kind of turf war until one of them leaves?
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Additional interesting fact:
If a drone manages to mate with a queen, he leaves his back end in the queen mid-flight, falls off and dies in act of love-making.
If he survives, the worker bees will kick him out of the hive in the winter because he does no work and takes up precious food.
It’s a tough life for a drone!
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