• Question: How is the bee queen chosen?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      They don’t really choose a queen do to the bees merit or anything. Instead they feed one normal working bee, when it is still a larva very rich food, which then triggers that bee to be developed into a queen.

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