Raw
Unfiltered All-Natural Local California Honey |
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SupercedeTo view larger images with captions, click on the
first photo (left photo)
The word to SUPERCEDE means to 'take over / make anew / get rid of that which came before' The first clue that something is wrong with the queen / that the colony is not pleased with her reproductive skills,
The worker bees will decide to feed the newly deposited eggs an enhanced portion of food in order to ‘grow’ the drone. When the hive begins to create new queen cells (long peanut shaped cells)
the beekeeper knows that the existing queen is not doing a very good job and that her days are numbered; As the colony has created several new queens to increase their chances of survival and,
the queens upon emerging from their ‘birth cell’ will either fight to the death
or swarm
taking with them colony members to start their own new colony elsewhere. |