Queen-cell wax helps shape honeybee queen development, challenging the idea that royal jelly alone makes a queen, a new study ...
Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within ...
The peanut-shaped compartments where future queens grow up seem to play an important role in development. The wax has ...
Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...