I'm very new and have many questions, so this may be a stupid one.
How are queens created? Originally I thought that one of the workers eventually becomes the new queen, but it looks like thats not right. Where do they naturally come from, how are they created?
I know they can be purchased and shipped, but how are the produced?
Algonam :?
Only stupid questions are the not ask ones. And you are right to a degree just not an adult worker. It's a worker egg not a drone egg that can become the queeen. The bees do it by how they feed the egg during development. Produced commercially is pretty complicated but is profitable to those doing it.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesbasics.htm#queen
In a nutshell from Michael Bush's link below: "a young worker larvae is fed extensive amounts of Royal Jelly and the bees build a large hanging cell for the larvae."
Quote from: Michael Bush on December 26, 2008, 05:40:45 PM
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesbasics.htm#queen
...JP