No Queen, No Honey
David also wished to produce and sell honey from the large hive, but without a queen, bees will not produce honey. Deciding to take a risk, he moved one of his queens over into the new hive. He waited anxiously to see if they would accept her as their new leader.
No Queen No Honey
There was no doubt in his mind that if they accepted the queen as their ruler, the hive was going to thrive. It had the numbers to be one of the most exceptional honey and venom producers in the country. If they didn’t accept the queen, the hive would slowly die out.
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The First Meeting
When David first placed the new queen into the hive, it was a very tense moment. The bees noticed her arrival nearly instantly, with some of them trying to get close in order to suss out whether she was a worthy replacement for the hive.
The First Meeting
At first, David wasn’t sure that they were going to take to the new queen. There was a period of uncertainty, in which he was worried that a perfectly good queen might be killed by the colony. All he could do was keep an eye on their behavior, as the outcome was out of his hands.
