The honeybee, with its black and yellow coat, exemplifies pollinator prowess. Apis mellifera, or honeybees, are extraordinary ...

Purdue Bee Lab held its annual queen rearing course, teaching beekeepers how to "level up" their skills by making new queens ...

A queen bee, or perfect female, although she differs from a worker bee in size, shape, function, and a whole set of instincts, ... a queen cell, which the beekeeper makes artificially; ...

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

Queen bee breeder Michael Kiem has built a successful business by capitalising on the fact that diet is transformative for female honey bees and ... The father-son team check on their queen cells.

A Queen Bee Lives 20 Times Longer Than Her Workers. ... or how much goes into fat and muscle cells. It also regulates blood sugar levels by reducing the amount of glucose synthesized in the liver.

But many bee species do just fine without queens or big colonies. Why do bees have queens? 2 biologists explain this insect’s social structure – and why some bees don’t have a queen at all Home ...

Also impacted were 16 queen bee cells, which depend on the temperature being 82 degrees, but the power was out and the boxed hives were disturbed.