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 maker – rather ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or ...

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

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

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

New research reveals that besides a special diet, the wax chamber's nature constructed for a honeybee larva plays a crucial ...

Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study ...

Secrets of the hive unlocked thanks to child’s question.

Royal cribs and ladies-in-waiting may seem the exclusive preserve of the monarchy. But scientists have found that queen ...