Marin Kovačić, Croatia telling: In most languages, she’s called the queen or the mother. It always refers to something central, the core around which everything revolves. And so it is in the hive – queen bee is the soul of the colony, the one and only mother 
But… is she really a queen? Or just a highly efficient factory of pheromones and eggs?
In the video below, in just 1 minute – she lays 4 eggs! If she kept that pace all day, she’d lay an unbelievable 5,760 eggs! 
In reality, when the colony is at its peak, she lays “only” around 2,000 eggs a day. Fun fact: that’s also her approximate weight in milligrams. 
p.s. The queen in this video is in her third year of life – what we’d jokingly call a “granny”