Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

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Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining ...