Feeding them royal jelly may only be part of the picture, a new study found.

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

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.

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 ...