In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers.

While it is uncertain whether taking royal jelly capsules or slathering it on your face will slow down the aging process, we do know that queen bees can live up to 20 times longer than workers.And ...

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

Despite having identical DNA to worker bees, queen bees live longer, and humans want in on it, which is the reason all those products exist—and why a new research project is buzzing.

Even scientists aren’t exactly sure what causes colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon that’s grown rapidly since the mid-2000s and is characterized by a sudden disappearance of worker bees.

Despite having identical DNA to worker bees, queen bees live longer, and humans want in on it, which is the reason all those products exist—and why a new research project is buzzing.