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They don't.

There can only be one queen in a hive. If a hive becomes overcrowded the queen will lay eggs in special queen cells and the nurse bees will look after these and feed them exclusively with royal jelly. That is what determines the larvae will develop into queens. Before these larvae pupate and mature the queen will leave the hive with about half of the workers. That is a swarm.

When the first adult queen emerges from the brood cell she will search round for the other queen cells, and each one she finds she will sting through the cell wall to kill the developing queen inside. If two queens emerge at the same time, they will fight until one manages to sting the other to death.

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Most likely you will never see the queen bee. She is under guard deep in the hive. If you happen to destroy the hive to find her, she will be a large distorted bee with most of her body being a giant intestine shaped egg factory. She will be the biggest thing in the hive.

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I guess they just pick a specific bee and then start feeding it a special jelly.

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She is born a queen and different from other bees. She will leave her birth nest and mate, then start her own colony. All of the bees there are her children. :)

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It doesn't. The queen is the only fertile female in the colony. Most of the other bees are infertile workers.

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