We breed honey bees and Queens. Breeding queen bees is quite a technical procedure which takes time and patience. Firstly the queen bee has to be caught and placed in a breeding pen, which has previously been prepared by worker bees with royal jelly. The queen lays one egg in each special compartment, which are removed after one day and place into a hive for the worker bees to turn into queen cells. It takes sixteen days for a new queen to fully mature and hatch. The hive must be monitored carefully for this event and the new queen removed and placed with a new group of bees without a queen so that she can be mated and begin laying her own eggs to develop the hive. It is important to make sure that the queen is laying eggs which will turn into worker bees and not just drones. If she only lays drones then she is no good as a queen, as the hive would not develop and become sustainable. If this is the case, it is back to square one to begin the process all over again

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