Honeybee queens are the lifeline of their colonies, so scientists were stunned to discover they are deliberately poisoning ...

Honey bee larvae lack the sophisticated olfactory capabilities of adult honey bees, a new study finds. Scientists point to ...

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with ...

Imagine two identical twins. One lives a modest life for about six weeks, while the other lives a luxurious life with ...

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 ...

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

The molecular mechanisms driving honey bee fate have been revealed. Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or ...

A queen bee hatches an egg as honeybees cluster on a honeycomb frame inside a beehive, in this handout picture taken at the National Botanical Garden, in Beijing, China. — Photos: Kai Wang/Chinese ...

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