Of course. But this isn’t what she is doing and most bee keepers are callous and destructive to their charges. Moving a queen should be kept to a minimum and only when splitting or capturing a hive. It usually would only happen once or so in a queen’s lifetime and regardless of how carefully it’s done will result in the death of dozens of bees. This may not seem like a big deal, but this attitude toward our top “domesticated” pollinator, as we continue to eradicate all native pollinators both directly and as an indirect consequence of our general poisoning of all ecosystems, is still just as serious an issue as it was five years ago when people were still marginally interested in the massive die-offs that were predicted almost 100 years ago.
But hey, someone’s building robotic bees, so everything will be fine. Just fine.
