Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a team led ...

A worker bee (left) and a queen bee (right) slurp up artificial nectar during laboratory experiments. Zexiang Huang, Shumeng Wu, Qinglin Wu Every spring, enterprising queen bumblebees emerge from ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.

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