{"id":133659,"date":"2026-02-14T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133659\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:53:08","slug":"why-honeybees-sometimes-turn-against-their-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133659\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Honeybees Sometimes Turn Against Their Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cameron-duke-8a3006193\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Cameron Duke<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=MinuteEarth\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">MinuteEarth<\/a>, who previously explained why there are <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=queen+bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">queen bees<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/why-there-are-no-king-bees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">no king bees<\/a>, talked about the specific circumstances in which the hive will turn against their queen, either by leaving her or killing her outright. In honeybees, this happens when the queen is no longer laying eggs. The female worker bees will choose one of their sisters to replace the queen, forcing the queen to defend her throne.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep her crown, the\u00a0 old queen has to constantly find\u00a0and kill these queens-to-be before they grow up. And if one does, two things can happen. The workers might gang up on the old queen\u00a0 and assassinate her \u2013Julius Caesar style\u2013 or, the hive might fragment, with\u00a0 a ton of workers swearing fealty to\u00a0their new sister-queen and flying\u00a0 off to start a new hive with her.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Duke of MinuteEarth, who previously explained why there are queen bees but no king bees, talked about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-133659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}