CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What happens if bees lose their queen?

The situation is different for different types of bees.

For bees, there is no way for them to produce new queens, so they can only fly around the hive in a disorderly manner, and finally go their separate ways, die alone, or be killed by other bee colonies before they disperse.

Of course, if artificially raised bees lose their queen bee, the situation will be much better. The beekeeper will dip a few pages of honey embryos in sugar water and put them into the hive. The bees will mistakenly think that the queen bee has returned and resume their normal production and life.

For wild bees that are larger than the mainland bees, such as native bees, flower bees, and wasps, they will select a new queen bee through fighting, and use the remaining royal jelly to help the new queen bee complete sexual maturity and become a true queen bee.

If you do nothing, it will scatter. The worker bees will slowly die.

If there is no queen bee in the beehive, there is still hope. The worker bees will transform the worker beehive into a queen cell to breed queens. Once the new queen is born and mates, the queen is successful.

Beekeeping knowledge: If a group of bees loses its queen, or replaces a bad queen with a good one, when introducing a new queen to the group, they often surround the queen, or even bite the new queen to death. When introducing a queen to a group of bees, first soak the queen to be introduced in water, or spray her with a sprayer, and then put her into the bee colony. Because the queen is covered with water, she either stays still or moves slowly. At this time, many worker bees come over and lick the water off the queen. After the queen is wet, her own smell will temporarily disappear, and the worker bees will not regard the introduced queen as an outsider and reject it. I also noticed that individual bees have the nature of "compassion" for their own kind. When one or more bees are wet, many bees will lick the water off the wet bees; after the water dries, the foreign bees, or the queen, have the same smell as the bee colony. This method of introducing a queen is successful, whether it is a new queen or an old queen. The queen bees and bee colonies used here are all Italian bees or their hybrids. The Northeastern black bees were not used for the experiment. It is said that the Northeastern black bees are very good at rejecting the queen. By the way, if you take one honeycomb to supplement another colony, or if you merge two colonies, according to the above principle of introducing a new queen, you only need to wet all the bees on the honeycomb to be merged. If both sides are wetted, it will be safer.

Hope this helps~