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No. In fact a queen usually won't mate with drones from her own hive.
When a new queen is about a week old she leaves the hive on a mating flight. She flies some distance and climbs some 30 or 40 metres into the air chased by a number of drones. She mates on the wing with several drones, even up to 20, then returns to the hive. If she didn't encounter enough drones on the first flight she may go out again on another day, but usually after she returns to the hive she won't leave it again unless with a swarm.
The queen stores the sperm she receives in an organ called the spermetheca and this is sufficient for her entire egg-laying life: an average of three years. She will not mate again.

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