Royal jelly contains a molecule that promotes wound healing. But don't rush to the local natural remedy store quite yet. Honey and other bee products have a life-giving, almost mystical quality ...

New research may explain why eating royal jelly destines honeybee larvae to become queens instead of workers -- and in the process adds new weight to the role of environmental factors in the ...

The Japanese royal jelly market is growing due to rising demand for natural supplements in food and skincare. Its immune-boosting and anti-aging benefits appeal to an aging population. Strict ...

A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p-coumaric acid, plays a key role in the bees' ...

Honeybee royal jelly is food meant to be eaten on the ceiling. And it might also be glue that keeps a royal baby in an upside-down cradle. These bees raise their queens in cells that can stay open at ...

Royal jelly, a milky secretion of worker bees, feeds and helps support the immune system of honeybee larvae for their first few days, and nourishes queen bees for life. A new study shows that the ...

In honeybee society, the monarch doesn’t break bread with the plebes. Even as a larva, the queen bee gets the exact same specially prepared dish delivered to her regularly by “nurse” bees, and in time ...

One of the newest trends in natural health circles — royal jelly — is actually extremely old. In ancient China, it was called "the food of emperors." Over in India, rulers ate it to feel younger and ...