When Bees Break the Rules! 🐝 Whenever I’m called to a smaller swarm, I’m always on high alert for multiple queens because these are often after-swarms and they don’t always follow the rules. 🐝 In this swarm, I found a small queen fresh, still hairy around the thorax, a clear sign of her young age. Then, I spotted another. 🐝 Normally, when a queen emerges, she’ll seek out and eliminate her rivals, leaving just one to rule the hive. But it’s not uncommon for multiple queens to emerge at once or

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE Yes nature is a cruel beast. While we’d love for there to be multiple queens in each hive living in unity, that’s just not how things work with bees Only one queen out of the dozens that are born at once will wear the crown. The rest either flee the hive or die fighting for their chance to “rule” This is how bees preserve survival of the fittest! If a queen can’t fight her way to the top, she might have a abnormality or defect that would make her offspring suffer We don’t w