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How Honeybees Defy Gravity with Royal Jelly to...

ArticlesBy AnjaButtstedtMarch 15, 2018

The female sex in honeybees (Apis spp.) comprises a reproductive queen and a sterile worker caste. Nurse bees feed all larvae progressively with a caste-specific food jelly until the prepupal stage. Only those larvae that are exclusively fed a large amount of royal jelly (RJ) develop into queens. RJ is a composite secretion of two…

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