Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen?

Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the ...

Researchers are learning more about how queen bees are made.

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 – rather ...