A colony of honeybees only has one queen. If there is more than one, they will fight to the death.
The queen is the only bee in the hive that can lay eggs and is the mother of all the other bees. She can live between 3 and 5 years. As she approaches the end of her life, and slows down laying eggs, she will produce less queen pheromone. The bees sense this and begin the process of raising a new queen to replace her. The new queen that is born will kill her mother and any other newly hatched queens.
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