Requeening

Any fertilized egg has the potential to become a queen.

A honey bee create a new queen by feeding the egg royal jelly, the worker bee choose 10-15

female larvae to become queens. The nurse bees are the ones to feed these larvae royal jelly, it a milky

white substance they secrete from their heads. Once the larvae mature and a new queen emerge from her cell, the new queen goes on a mating flight to mate with drones from other colonies. After the mating flight she returns back to the hive where she becomes the queen. A new queen can lay up to 2000 eggs a day.

Why does a hive requeen?

If the hive is queen less,

If their old, injured or the hive rejected the first queen

If the hive swarmed.

Queen cell.