Worker bees are female! 🐝♀️ In a healthy colony with a strong queen, the queen is responsible for laying all the eggs. She is able to lay both fertilised and unfertilised eggs, and her special pheromone stops the worker bees from developing the ability to lay eggs. Fertilised eggs ➡️ worker bees and queen bees Unfertilised eggs ➡️ drones (make bees) However, if the queen dies and the workers are unable to raise a new queen in time, the colony starts to fail gradually. Without a fertile laying q

Bees make new queens through a process called "queen rearing," which involves selecting and feeding worker larvae with a special diet called "royal jelly." When the queen bee dies or is no longer able to lay eggs, the worker bees will start to build special queen cells in the hive. These queen cells are larger than regular brood cells and have a different shape to accommodate the growing queen. The worker bees then choose several young larvae to become queen candidates and move them to the queen