Description

Royal Jelly Royal jelly, which is secreted from the salivary glands of worker bees, serves as food for all young larvae and as the only food for larvae that will develop into queen bees. Like bee pollen, it has been falsely claimed to be especially nutritious, to provide buoyant energy, and to have therapeutic properties The Queen Bee is about *5% longer and *0% heavier than the normal worker bee. She can lay up to ***0 eggs a day in the peak of the season which all together weigh approximately 2 ?times her own body weight. The Queen only leaves her hive to mate in the air or to leave with a swarm. The Queen can live up to 6 years but in most cases, she becomes non-productive by the 4th year and the workers then replace her by producing a new queen. Most bee-keepers , however, replace the queen by the 3rd year or sooner to keep the hive strong.