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

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 ...

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 ...