All Hail The New Queen

Next, they needed a new queen. This isn’t a simple process, and there is a good chance that these bees won’t accept the queen. If they didn’t, their colony was history, but he had a queen he thought fitted the job perfectly.

Worker bees use their sense of smell to identify their colony and queen. Because each colony has a different scent, bees will know when a new queen has been put in their hive. Often what beekeepers do to negate this is to use sugar syrup and essential oils to mask the new queen’s scent, giving her new hive time to take to her.