> All of the other bees really are effectively arms of the Queen. Are they? They make the cells for her to lay eggs in, so that she has a daughter in the old

> All of the other bees really are effectively arms of the Queen. Are they? They make the cells for her to lay eggs in, so that she has a daughter in the old colony when she leaves. The workers shrink the queen down when they want her to swarm, and they stop her laying so she is ready to fly. The workers clean the queen and feed her. They expand the number of cells for brood in spring and shrink it in autumn. The workers decide when the queen is ready to die, and feed royal jelly to the grub that will supersede the old queen by killing her. Who controls the hive? I’m a beekeeper and I don’t know.