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

Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ...

Scientists found low doses of a widely used pesticide disrupt bee reproduction by altering genes in their ovaries rather than ...

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 ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

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 become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...

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