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.
List of British monarchy records
The longest-lived male consort is her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who is old
and is also the longest-lived male descendant of Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria's longest-lived descendant overall was Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883-1981) at 97 years, 312 days (Prince Philip would surpass her on 19 April 2019, and Queen Elizabeth II would pass her as longest-lived holder of a British royal title from birth on 28 February 2024). The longest-lived holder of a British royal title by marriage, and the oldest person in the history of the British royal family, was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004) at 102 years, 319 days (Prince Philip would surpass her on 15 April 2024; Queen Elizabeth II would pass her age on 24 February 2029).