रानी मधुमक्खी का महत्व The performance of the honeybee colonies depends on the inherited qualities ofi ts queen. The queen passes on her characteristics pertaining to longevity, industriousness, disease resistance, temperament, swarming, absconding and other several behavioural attributes to its offspring. Thus, for successful and profitable beekeeping a young, mated and quality queen bee in honeybee colony is highly desirable. Queen bee is the most important member of the honeybee colony owing to the following reasons: Queen bee is generally the only single individual in honeybee colony which is capable of laying eggs fertilized and unfertilized eggs .which result in the growth of honeybee colony and, hence, in itshigher productivity.  Colony development, productivity and behavioural characteristics of the progeny are governed by the queen bee….