What is royal jelly and how do bees make it? Richard Jones takes look <\/p>
Honeybees don’t just make honey<\/a>, they also make royal jelly. This high-protein secretion is produced by worker honeybees<\/a> from the two hypopharyngeal glands, just inside the mouth. <\/strong><\/p> The glands are long, coiled tubes, each with about 550 secretory lobes emptying into a single duct.<\/p> Despite its name, royal jelly (also called brood food) is fed to all grubs for the first three days of life. <\/p> After this, worker larvae receive the secretion diluted with regurgitated honey and pollen while the grubs that are destined to become queens continue to receive the jelly neat. <\/p> A gelatinous mass accumulates in the larger queen cells on the brood comb, on which the royal maggots feast. This gives the potential queen larvae a huge nutritional size advantage. <\/strong><\/p> More fascinating bee facts<\/strong><\/p> What is royal jelly and how do bees make it? Richard Jones takes look <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41224,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight.jpg",2121,1414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/how-do-bees-make-royal-jelly-and-who-in-the-hive-is-lucky-enough-to-eat-this-tasty-delight-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What is royal jelly and how do bees make it? Richard Jones takes look","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/41223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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