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Did You Know? Queens usually go on only one or two mating flights shortly after emerging from their cells. Once they have mated with about a dozen drones (ideally) remainder of their lives. A queen can control whether or not she lays fertile (produce female eggs) or infertile (produce drones) but it's up to the workers to decide if the fertilized eggs will become queens or other workers. A drone-laying queen was either reproductive organs, or simply outlived her supply of genetic material. |