It Turns Out Bees Crown Queens Via A 'Buckingham Palace' Process |
It Turns Out Bees Crown Queens Via A 'Buckingham Palace' Process
Feeding them royal jelly may only be part of the picture, a new study found.
Bees have been around for at least 120 million years, when, Scientific American said, our own ancestors were “rat-like” creatures.
You’d think that’d give us plenty of time to learn about them. But so much information about their lives – like how exactly they fly, and why they can live underwater – has only been revealed relatively recently.
A new study, published in Nature, looked into how they choose their queens (the sole breeding females in the hive), too.
And it may not be as simple as giving them the famous specialised “royal jelly” secretions, which many non-queen bee larvae are also fed briefly, though this certainly seems to be a part of the........