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

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

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

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

For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal ...

The peanut-shaped compartments where future queens grow up seem to play an important role in development. The wax has ...

A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Even as larvae, honey bees are tuned in to the social culture of the hive, becoming more or less aggressive depending on who raises them, researchers report in the journal ...