Billy Stokes, age 8, of St. Catharines, Canada for is question:

Does the queen bee make honey?

There are different bees but none of the queen bees make honey. A nest of wild bees may be started by a queen who gathers pollen and nectar to feed her first eggs. But the honeybee queen never has this problem. She leaves her old hive and starts off to make a new home with a swarm of worker bees. The queen is the mother of the hive and her only duty is to lair eggs.

The queen honeybee is not allowed to do anything by lay eggs. A team of workers crowd around her wherever she goes, tending to all her needs. They wash her until her furry skin is bare. They feed her special food and her busy maid servants refuse to let her tend the babies, build cells, make the honey or do any other of the many hive duties.