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Supersedure: Queen supersedure is when the bees in the
colony work to replace the existing queen who they have determined
to be inferior for whatever reason or they have to produce a
new queen in an emergency situation when the old queen is dead or
lost. In both examples, the bees usually use female larvae that were
in route to becoming a worker, and switch her destiny to that of
becoming a queen.
Here is a definition of supersedure in a recent article by Jamie Ellis.
I thought supersedure happened when the queen lay in a queen cup and the larvae was nurtured as a queen from the start?