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?
In: Biology
The workers feed a special food to the larvae and it turns into a queen. The new queen then takes her mating flight, and then finds a place to live. If she’s a replacement, she comes back to the hive, otherwise she (and some of the colony) swarms (flies as a group) to found a new colony.
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