It has something to do with honey bees. Idon't know very clearly. Pls HELp...............
2007-02-19 01:16:48 · 7 answers · asked by malu 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
It is a secretion from glands of the worker bees.
It is fed to bee larvae destined to become workers
for the first three days of their lives, then they are
switched over to a mixture of nectar and pollen as
food. If the larva is to become a queen it is fed
royal jelly its entire larval life. There is no such
thing as a prince bee, and the drones (males) are
not fed royal jelly at all. The queen has nothing to
do with what the larvae are fed, the worker bees
determine that. The workers and queen are all females, and the development of their reproductive organs is controlled by their feeding.
The workers are essentially stunted queens, and
some of them are capable of laying eggs, but these eggs are not fertilized, as the workers do not
mate. If the eggs laid by workers develop they
become male bees. However eggs laid by the
workers are normally destroyed by other workers.
2007-02-19 04:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Royal jelly is a bee secretion that aids in the development of immature or young bees. If a queen is desired, the hatch ling will receive only royal jelly as its food source, in large quantities for the first four days of its growth, and this rapid, early feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay more eggs for the hive.
2007-02-19 09:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by Max 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a special jelly that increases the growth of reproductive organs in a Queen bee and a Prince bee I think
2007-02-19 09:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by cliffjumpers57 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everything mangidabx said is true as well. Royal jelly is a secretion composed mostly of hormones. it is produces by worker bees when they are developmentally "nurse bees".
2007-02-19 13:12:38 · answer #4 · answered by Bio-student Again(aka nursegirl) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They feed it to the queen to fatten her up for the several million births she's in for - not to be envied, huh ladies?
Still she's well looked after. In a way the name 'queen' is very misleading, it makes people imagine a queen is in control of the colony. Thats not the case at all.
2007-02-19 09:25:33 · answer #5 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its the stuff that the bees use to seal the baby bee cocoons.
2007-02-19 09:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a gooey substance the queen feed in massive amount to her baby if she wants it to grow to be queen, and not so generously to the baby growing up to be worker..
2007-02-19 09:58:49 · answer #7 · answered by LuMin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋