What's interesting here is changing perspectives to understand what's happening in the bee colony, according to the wise words of the beekeeper's mentor: "If you want to become a good beekeeper, you have to learn to think like a bee."

The few bees quickly realize that they no longer have a queen. However, they have youngest larvae from which they can build re-creation cells and thus grow a new queen. Bees have known this situation for millions of years: They always start the "re-creation" program when the old queen has gone missing. This situation is therefore manageable for the bees, so it triggers only a slight disquiet in the colony. The flight bees leave the hive and fly back to their previous colony. Many young bees hatch from the brood combs, so that the box is full of bees within a few days. Optimal conditions for raising queens.

The box is now full of young nurse bees producing feed juice in abundance, which they cannot get rid of as there is no more open brood in the box. Although there is no queen in the colony, the bees are relaxed and content, because they are on the safe side in the expectation that new queens will soon hatch from the capped post-creation cells.

If it weren't for the beekeeper: the breaking of the re-creation cells triggers great unrest in the bee colony within a few minutes. The bees roar ("howl") loudly, moving their wings intensely, and excitedly search for the queen cells. The bees know that without these cells, the colony is doomed, because it now has no way to get a queen naturally.

Within these 2 hours, even the last bee has understood that its colony is doomed. The panic in the colony is correspondingly great. Thanks to the beekeeper, the bees suddenly find the breeding lath with larvae and can hardly believe their luck: The nurse bees pounce on the larvae and do their best to nurse them. Within a very short time, the colony calms down again.