Cool #Farmfactfriday time! New queen bee being introduced ⬆️ 🐝What happens if a honey bee hive loses their queen?? Either she dies, the workers kill her off for not fulfilling her job properly, she's old, she's sick, etc, regardless they NEED a queen. If there was a swarm planned, they will have "made" an extra queen by nurturing a worker bee larvea with royal jelly ( I talked about that on the last bee post), so each new little colony will have a queen but if they didn't prepare a new queen an