The queen bee just told the worker bee to shut up and make honey.
Why do bees kill the queen?
When she is no longer useful to the hive, one of two things can happen. Either a new queen will come into power, taking over the reproductive duties completely, while the dowager queen bee, if you will, retires. Or, the hive will kill off the declining queen bee in order to instate a new one.
These coups are common and help spread diversity through the colony.
The worker bees will dispose of their queen through a non-violent but lethal technique called “balling.”
They ball their queen by surrounding her in a tight cluster. The amount of heat created by the mob raises the queen’s body temperature to extreme levels so that she overheats and dies.