The Role of the Queen in Beekeeping

He conjectured that they received accidentally a small portion of the peculiar food of these infant queens. He accounted for their reproductive organs, being more developed than those of other workers. Most reared in such hives are in close proximity to the young queens and there is certainly much probability that some of the royal jelly may be accidentally dropped into their cells. The kind of eggs laid by these fertile workers has already been noticed. Such workers are seldom tolerated in hives containing a fertile healthy queen,. though instances of this kind have been known to occur.