Wow thats very interesting! I have spend my whole life reading about animals, but I didnt knew that.
I knew that usually, there are several "potential queens" in a hive; larvaes that are feed with a special substance or something like that.
Then they all become adults, but since the hive only can have one queen, the first queen born attacks and kills the others.
Please, correct me if Im wrong
Anyway, I remember one episode when Hal founds an insect colony in the house and he is very scared and goes crazy. He was also afraid of a spider. So, if he is so afraid of bugs... it is not a little weird that he dared to catch hundreds of bees, probably one of the most dangerous insects of them all?
... but, wait... he hadnt sleep for a long time, right? Maybe he was just crazy when he did that...