Honey and Bees — Queen Bee

Creating royalty is a bee’s specialty! The most important single bee in the hive starts from a fertilized egg which is actually exactly the same type of egg as any other worker bee. Drones (males) are actually unfertilized eggs, but more on that in another post! Depending on the situation in which the colony finds itself needing a queen the egg will either be laid in a queen cup (a cell designed specifically for raising a queen-planned) or a worker cell (these are used to make a queen in an emergency situation-unplanned).  In the picture above you can see a...