Question: How do bees, female or male, become Queen hornet or King hornet?

Scott Dwyer answered on 22 Nov 2019:

So in the case of honey bees, they become a queen by being fed only royal jelly and nothing else, where as the honey bee workers are fed a mixture of royal jelly and bee bread (honey and fermented pollen mix). Queens are laid in bigger cells called queen cells, where workers are laid in smaller ones. All fertilised eggs are female and either become a queen (who can be fertile once she’d mated) or a worker (who are sterile). We don’t call the males king bees, but rather we call them drones as they don’t do much and are only laid in peak times in the summer and their role is to mate with new queens from other colonies.

Bees, wasps (hornets) and ants all belong to the same order of insects called Hymenoptera, they’re closely related.

Social wasps (for example, the hornet) have varying cell sizes to determine if they will become a queen or not, bigger cells produce queens (also known as gynes, reproductive females once mated) and smaller cells produce worker females.

Hope that explains it!