On animals that know things

Part Three.

If you take a Queen Bee away from her hive, the bees that are left find one of her larvae and turn it into a new Queen. They do this by feeding the larvae royal jelly until they hatch. When this new Queen hatches she looks around for all the other larvae that could potentially become Queens and eats them all up.

So the bees can make a Queen. presumably, when she hatches they are bow to her in beely submission and say in tiny bee voices, "You are are new Queen." But she's not all that special really, to me. They are much more special for making her as a replacement for the one they lost.