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

Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...

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

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

Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within ...

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

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 ...

A honeybee crawls into a hexagonal cell of a honeycomb in a hive. A worker bee on honeycomb. The wax used to make queen cells is chemically and architecturally distinct from the wax of worker cells.

Every spring, Canadian beekeepers await the arrival of queen bees crucial to their industry. The queens that populate Canadian bee colonies through the season largely do not come from Canada at all.