Worker bees are female! 🐝♀️ In a healthy colony with a strong queen, the queen is responsible for laying all the eggs. She is able to lay both fertilised and unfertilised eggs, and her special pheromone stops the worker bees from developing the ability to lay eggs. Fertilised eggs ➡️ worker bees and queen bees Unfertilised eggs ➡️ drones (make bees) However, if the queen dies and the workers are unable to raise a new queen in time, the colony starts to fail gradually. Without a fertile laying q