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

Where do bees live? Bees can live together in a beehive. Thousands of bees can live in a beehive, but there is only one queen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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