How Do Bees Make Honey?

Published: 28 March 2016
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The Honey Bee Dance Language Explained: https://www.cals.ncsu.edu/entomology/...

Being a queen is about more than royal jelly:
Mao, Wenfu, Mary A. Schuler, and May R. Berenbaum. "A dietary phytochemical alters caste-associated gene expression in honey bees."Science advances 1.7 (2015): e1500795

Multiple phenotypes coming from the same genetics (like workers and queens) is called “polyphenism”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphe...

The social structure of honeybee hives: https://hymenoptera42.wordpress.com/2...


The following clips were used under Creative Commons CC-BY license:
Mary Ann Aschenbrenner   • Swarm and Bee Dance 4/18/2015  
BeesOnTheNet    • Honeybee Waggle Dance  

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