It is often necessary to replace the queen. The older a queen gets the less productive she is likely to be. It could be that she has been injured or is not as fertile as she used to be. It could be that her offspring have more than the usual inclination to sting.
Laying over her own weight in eggs every day, to grow and maintain the number of bees in the colony; the queen is quite obviously the most important bee in the hive. If there are any problems here then the whole colony is in danger. If the workers detect a problem in the hive such as the death of or injury to the queen they will begin to build a small number of queen cells.
Queen cells are brood cells larger than those that contain the worker bee larvae. The cell needs to be bigger because the queen View the rest of this article
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