Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen?

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Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen – with the responsibility of serving as the ​colony’s only baby maker – rather ...