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Raymond Johnson, Treasurer of the Association, “her main purpose is to lay eggs to make new bees. She’s in complete control of the hive.” While the Queen is healthy, she will lay 1500 to 2000 eggs a day in the summer, and she never comes out of the hive unless the colony becomes too populous. When the Queen begins to get old or crippled, the workers will nurture one of the cells in the hive into another Queen. If the Queen dies and she is not replaced, the whole colony will die.
Even though there is only one Queen, every female egg in the hive has the potential of becoming a Queen. The crucial factor in forming the adult bee is the food that is fed to the developing cell, because every worker is actually a Queen but without the ability to lay eggs. All cells are fed Royal Jelly, which is an extremely rich food secreted by the workers. However, while the growing Queen is fed nothing but the jelly, the developing workers are fed jelly, nectar and pollen.
The workers literally kill themselves with work. In a brief life of 4 to 6 weeks, they will do nothing but carry nectar back to the hive, make
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