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

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

How does one bee become a queen - with the responsibility of serving as the colony's only baby maker - rather than just ...

What is the difference between male and female bees? Male bees are called drones. Female bees are called workers, and they ...

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the hive, ...

"You can think of it as something like Buckingham Palace." ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a team led ...