CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Why does only one fertilized egg of a honey bee develop into a new queen bee?

The above is right. The result of a queen bee is caused by three reasons:

1. Some female bees have been fed with royal jelly since they were larvae. If nothing unexpected happens, these bees will grow into queen bees when they grow up, while other worker bees are fed with normal nectar.

2. Generally speaking, there will be several queen bees being raised at the same time, but once a queen bee is fully developed and comes out of the hive, she will do two things. The first is to bite to death other queen bees that have not yet matured, to ensure that there is only one queen bee in this batch of breeding. The second is to quickly drive the previous queen bee out of the bee colony, which is called bee swarming. Generally speaking, when the previous queen bee leaves, she will take away about 1/3 of the bees, and will also take away three days of honey and dry food for the initial preparation of establishing a new bee colony. In order to avoid bee swarming, beekeepers usually control the queen bee and put her under house arrest. When it needs to be replaced, they usually buy a queen bee, and the queen bee cell made by the worker bees themselves (used to cultivate queen bees) will also be destroyed.

3. When the incumbent queen bee is still able to lay eggs (about three years), she will secrete a special substance that can prevent other female bees from developing fertility and hinder the birth of queen bees. Once a potential queen bee is born, she will quickly "clean" it up. But if the incumbent queen bee is in poor health or has no fertility, the waiting worker bees can quickly pass this information to the entire bee colony. At this time, some worker bees will raise new queen bees without the queen bee's knowledge, and another cycle will appear.