For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal ...

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...