Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

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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 ...