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 ...

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For a long time, the standard account of queen-making in honeybees centered on one ingredient: royal jelly. A recent study suggests that answer was incomplete. The path to becoming queen also appears ...

Through larval grafting, beekeepers are able to trick a beehive to produce many queens at once. The Beekeepers of Indiana is a nonprofit that connects Hoosier beekeepers, and provides them with ...

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 ...

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 ...