Searching for a Queen?

Hidden deep inside every beehive lives the queen bee. Surrounded by thousands of her daughters she is the precious centerpiece of the hive. She is fed and groomed by a ring of attendants who gently stroke her body with their antennae.  They feed her a rich diet so that she can lay as many as 2000 eggs every day. She is the mother of all the bees, sometimes as many as 60,000 worker bees in a single hive.  

Every queen bee has a special perfume, called "queen substance" which spreads throughout the hive and provides the worker bees with a sense of well being and colony unity. While a worker bee may live only a few weeks, the queen can live from 2 to 5 years and in that time produce over a million workers.