• Question: What decides or how is a queen bee a queen bee?

    Asked by Bethany to Miranda on 10 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by tilly?.
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      Miranda Bane answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      I queen bee is born a queen bee. She is the daughter of a queen and she has a father. All of the other bees in the colony that aren’t queens are cloned daughters of the queen and they don’t have a father. It’s amazing because most animals need a mother and a father but bees can make clones!

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