For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research reveals the process is far more remarkable: young worker bees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

Honeybee queens are made not just by royal jelly, but by an entire colony engineering the perfect royal nursery.

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Researchers have identified "DNA switches" that become active as honeybee larvae grow into worker bees, offering new insight into the development of these important pollinators and the ecosystems 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 ...

Labor Day honors workers. And with good reason, indeed for more reasons that many people consider: Ever more is expected of the worker bee. Often with the Damoclean sword above their heads, they’re ...

The bees swarmed into my daughter’s front yard on the third of July, which meant that her guests arriving the next day for the holiday had to go around to the side door to enter the house. Bees do ...