Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a ...

Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen?

Researchers are learning more about how queen bees are made.

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 maker – rather ...