ALL BEE OWNERS. Quick question*

[muscovy94]

HEy i have a quick question I have been wondering for some time. You know how every hive has one queen bee, well how does she become the queen?? is she born the queen or do they just pick her when she is grown? Thanks.
ps. I know this is kind of a random question...

 

[SamG347]

She is born the queen...the bees will make a cell about twice if not three times the size of a regular cell....and it will usually be ontop of the cells instead of going down. They feed her what is called Royal Jelly...so she keeps growing and growing. And once she hatches she will get in a fight with the exhisting queen....and there will always only be one queen per hive. Sometimes a mother/daughter hive will exhist but rarely. And once the queen hatches she has to go on a mating flight to be bred...then come back and start laying.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Very briefly: She is created by being reared in a special sized cell and fed royal jelly by her workers. Once they have a laying queen, the workers will tear down any remaining queen cells.

HTH

Rusty