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Similar to workers and drones, upon emergence, a young queen may consume nectar or honey, but unlike them, she does not consume pollen as a protein source,² instead depending upon receiving a diet of jelly begged from nurse bees for her entire life. A queen can lay more than her body weight in eggs in a day, and thus requires an exceptionally nutritious diet. The jelly diet is so perfect that a queen's feces look like droplets of water. Due to this diet, queens carry a different endosymbiotic microbial community structure than do workers (Anderson et al. 2018), and typically live to a much longer age (Figure 5.3).