Beekeeping
The queen is the only sexually mature female in the hive and all of the female worker bees and male drones are her offspring. The queen may live for up to three years or more and may be capable of laying half a million eggs or more in her lifetime. At the peak of the breeding season, late spring to summer, a good queen may be capable of laying 3,000 eggs in one day, more than her own body weight. This would be exceptional however; a prolific queen might peak at 2,000 eggs a day, but a more average queen might lay just 1,500 eggs per day. The queen is raised from a normal worker egg, but is fed a larger amount of royal jelly than a normal worker bee, resulting in a radically different growth and metamorphosis. The queen influences the colony by the production and dissemination of a variety of pheromones or "queen substances". One of these chemicals suppresses the development of ovaries in all the female worker bees in the hive and prevents them from laying eggs.
Polybia paulista
In a swarm-fonding paper wasp colony there are multiple queens depending on colony cycle and progression. Young queens tend to be morphologically similar to those of workers but some distinction can be found in older queens, generally with physically size. Queens have a life span of up to 1 year while workers life cycle last 30 days, with the first day of flight is around the 6th day) Queen dominance is attributed by social dominance, which is believed to be a behaviour and to shift colony from poling to monogyny. As well as queen physical size, where it is observed that younger queens replace older queens base on the development in size.