A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee biology that scientists had overlooked for decades. Researchers at the ...

Last time, I wrote about how queen bees, worker bees, and drones are each born. Drones are born from unfertilized eggs. Queen ...

Drones have no father. When I heard that, I was a little surprised. Last time, while researching drones, I learned that they ...

Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates before reaching adulthood, according to a peer-reviewed study published in ...

The molecular mechanisms driving honey bee fate have been revealed. Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. © tuncarif/Shutterstock.com The post What Really Makes a Queen Bee? It's Not Just Royal Jelly ...

Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a highly nutritious milky secretion that all honeybee larvae are fed for at ...