Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...
For many years, scientists believed that becoming a queen honeybee was mainly a matter of diet. The idea was simple: feed a ...
Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study ...
A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee ...
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 ...