Why are there no male queen bees?
Male bees usually die after mating with the queen bee, but even if they survive, they cannot become a "queen".
What is a queen bee?
A queen bee is an adult, mated bee that lives in a colony or honey bee hive, and is usually the mother of most (some of the offspring), if not all, of the bees in the hive. Queen bees develop from larvae that are selected by worker bees and specially fed to sexual maturity. There is usually only one mature, mated queen bee in a hive.
The queen bee is the only female bee that has the right to lay eggs in the bee colony, longer and larger than the male bees, worker bees, wings shorter than the body, has the task of laying eggs but does not make honey, the queen bee hatches from an egg like other eggs, but the larvae are fed with saliva (royal jelly) of worker bees which is very nutritious, stored in a separate nest used only for the queen bee or bees preparing to develop into queen bees. The queen bee lives for 3 - 5 years, each nest has only one queen bee, if there are many bees in the nest, they will separate into a new nest, usually in the spring. The queen bee reproduces best in the first year. If the queen bee is lost, the worker bees can create a new queen.
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