Queen bee

[lachlaan]

Does anyone know wether you need to keep the royal jelly inside the skep for any particular purpose? Like, do queens just die out from age and you need jelleh to spawn new ones or some such thing? Mine have yet to budge the honey progress bar, but do have a new queen and some jelly that i removed because why not xD

[Nikixos]

I had 7 drones for my Queen (Snow white) and they started producing a steady supply of workers

Yeah but you had fruits tree around, those are expansive
Also in cases like this, search for real life applications, is it needed for the bee skep? it might be needed here too.

[Rifmaster]

Pretty sure royal jelly is generated by queens, i think worker bees eat it or something (not sure), but it can be used for other things, not just your bee skep.

[Procne]

Pretty sure royal jelly is generated by queens, i think worker bees eat it or something (not sure), but it can be used for other things, not just your bee skep.

In RL it's generated by worker bees to feed the larvas. When the time comes to make another queen workers start to feed one larva with alrge quantities of royal jelly. Royal jelly in large quantities makes larva take the queen road development, instead of normal worker bee.

[mrmay87]

when we got our queen from skep there was 5 royal jelly, just an assumption but i think it comes with the queen when it is arrives

[Shadeen]

How many worker bees does a skep need in order to be considered 'mature' and thus able to produce a new queen, if the original one is removed? If it's not a matter of worker bee population, then what defines a 'mature' skep?

[mrmay87]

mine was at 5k worker bees

[Shadeen]

mine was at 5k worker bees

Thank you

[lachlaan]

Got a second queen in the skep at just 3.5k workers.

[tack]

do bees need orchards to servive or will potted plants do