For many years, scientists believed that becoming a queen honeybee was mainly a matter of diet. The idea was simple: feed a ...

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

Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...

A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee ...

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

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 ...

A honeybee visiting wildflowers. UC Davis biologist Felicity Muth is studying how bees understand their world, making decisions about which flowers to visit and how often. (Thomas J. Ushing, UC Davis) ...