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

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

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

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

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

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.

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