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| | Queen bee Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The queen develops more fully than sexually immature workers, because she is given royal jelly, a secretion from glands on the heads of young workers, for an extended time, and she is given a specially constructed cell, which is larger than the cells of normal brood comb, and also is oriented vertically instead of horizontally. |
| | As the young queen larva pupates with her head down, the workers cap the cell with beeswax. |
| | Although the color is sometimes randomly chosen, professional queen breeders use a system whereby the color of a queen's dot indicates what year she hatched (therefore aiding beekeepers who are deciding whether their queens are too old to maintain a strong hive, and need replacing). |
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