As pollinators of flowers, trees and more than 50 crops, whereby they add an estimated $34 billion per year to the U.S. economy, honey bees offer value both ecological and economic—even before ...
When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...
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.