For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

The queen bee is the “mother” of all the bees in a colony. Harry Laidlaw described the honey bee queen as a key part of a ...

Study provides insight into how a honeybee queen arises Chambers are built for future queen's larval development Wax for these cells differs physically and chemically Queens also are fed nutrient-rich ...

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 ...

For a long time, the standard account of queen-making in honeybees centered on one ingredient: royal jelly. A recent study ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.

June 10 (Reuters) - Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with the responsibility of serving as the colony's only baby ...