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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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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 ...