For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.
"You can think of it as something like Buckingham Palace." ...
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?
Researchers are learning more about how queen bees are made.
Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...
When I want something sweet, I pull out a jar of honey made by my bee friends at Washington State University. I talked about your question with one of the insect scientists there, Rae Olsson. They ...