Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the ...

By Marta Serafinko June 10 (Reuters) - Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So ...

Royal cribs and ladies-in-waiting may seem the exclusive preserve of the monarchy. But scientists have found that queen ...

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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 ...

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.