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Changing The Queen

1st January 2026 by Steve Donohoe
Virgin honey bee queen

Honey bees have been around a lot longer than humans, and the way they organise their colonies and their lives seems to work very well for them, even if it sometimes seems a little strange to us. They have a system involving three types of adult bee (the queen, workers, and drones), three types of … Read more

Categories Swarming & Colony Reproduction Tags splits, supersedure, Swarm prevention 2 Comments

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