Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

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

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

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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 ...

If you ever bought a bottle of vitamins, you’ve probably seen supplements touting the benefits of royal jelly—a substance worker bees secrete from their glands—on the shelf nearby. It can also be ...

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 ...