This is so wonderful, Dee. I love following your bee stories!!

Yonuh...thanks sweetie...wish you were here to share in the honey harvest about to happen in a few weeks.

Me, too! I love honey!

Wow! I never knew how the queen bee was selected.

Love this Dee!! Enjoy the yummy honey soon. It's amazing how Nature works!

(((Hugs)))

Love the bee stories...they seem to have a well established order..

Amazing and to think it is instinct on the bees part. They seem to know what to do and they just do it.

Beeee autiful, Dee.

I wanted to share with you an article Larry was reading today in one of his bee magazines. Once the Queen is hatched...which should be in 5 days, and if there are no other queens hatched (we didn't see anymore queen cells) she will take her maiden flight. We will mate will many drones about 35 feet in the air...when she has filled a special sack in her body that holds the male sperm she returns to the hive. The article said that some Queen bees will simply stop mating and return with the last Drone's sex organ still attached...when she's finished, she's finished. (ouch). Then she will begin laying eggs. For a drone (male), she will lay an egg in each hive cell...for a female worker bee she add sperm...it's the sperm that determines if the bee will emerge a male or a female. And the drone (male) does not have a father but it does have a grandfather...I'm still trying to work that one out in my head. Fascinating creatures...