Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a ...

Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen?

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with ...

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen’s waxy abode within ...

New research shows honeybee queens need more than royal jelly. Special wax chambers and dedicated worker bees help shape ...

A honeybee crawls into a hexagonal cell of a honeycomb in a hive. A worker bee on honeycomb. The wax used to make queen cells is chemically and architecturally distinct from the wax of worker cells.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal ...

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within ...