Millions of bees dramatically escaped after an 18-wheeler carrying hives crashed while trying to make a turn in Orange County ...

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 ...

BEIJING — 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 — ...

Study provides insight into how a honeybee queen arises Chambers are built for future queen's larval development Wax for these cells differs physically and chemically Queens also are fed nutrient-rich ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the ...

A queen bee may be shaped by more than its famous royal diet. “The discovery is very cool and thought-provoking,” says Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the work ...

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

Our findings redefine the queen cell not as a passive container, but as an engineered bioactive microenvironment that acts as a gatekeeper for caste determination 1. We show that worker cell wax, even ...

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 ...