Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

This video investigates the biological process that transforms an ordinary larva into a queen bee. It explains how specialized feeding with royal jelly alters development, triggering profound physical ...