A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee ...
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.
Honeybee workers do far more than feed larvae royal jelly to produce a queen. They secretly construct wax chambers with ...