The Farmeco Queen Bee Drama
Tom went to look at the bees today and reported back that they have lost their queen. This is bad news. The queen can lay hundreds (even thousands!) of eggs every day and so if the queen dies then the hive is in trouble.
However, Tom tells me that the clever worker bees have created four queen cells.
This means that they have started to feed lots of royal jelly to some of the larvae. On this diet, the larvae will grow into queen bees.
Once the first queen emerges, she will destroy the other potential queens and become the only queen bee in the hive.
After this, she can fly out and mate with drones from other hives before returning to lay thousands and thousands of eggs.
With any luck, the hive will be back to full strength soon!
I'd like to go and see the bees one day. I'll be tucked safely inside Tom's veil though!
Lots of love,
Baart
xxx
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