[marant]

Is it possible for a queen to create a colony if she has no worker bees to help? How would one go about it?

 

[Intheswamp]

I'm about 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that she can't.

Ed

 

[WLC]

Bumble bees can though.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

Queen honey bees, cannot produce royal jelly, make wax or use wax, maintain brood nest temperature, feed brood, cap cells, or just about anything else that needs doing to produce adult bees from eggs -- but they can produce eggs.

 

[beepro]

Not to mention that a queen bee will not do any housekeeping or fend off the SHB and varroa.
Without the workers to help she cannot make it alone.

 

[ForrestB]

she can lay eggs but you would need to do all the other stuff

 

[Mr.Beeman]

To answer your question... no she can't.

 

[WLC]

I wonder if thelytokous workers/queens can raise their own colonies though.