Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen? For decades, biologists believed that queen bee development was a result of the ...

Following a queen rather than a hive changes how a review interprets honey bee reproduction, colony lifetimes and parental ...

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Every spring, a honey bee queen may abandon her hive, taking thousands of workers with her in a swirling cloud. Behind her, a ...

Hello. This is Mitsuko from Kano Bee.When writing articles about honey, I sometimes wonder, "Honeybees all look the same, but ...

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 ...

Queen bee larvae develop in unique peanut-shaped cells. Piscisgate via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a highly specialized beehive chamber to ...

It sounds like the plot of a medieval historical drama: A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such high-stakes coups ...

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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 ...