For honeybee queens, right home may be key to the crown: Study | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

Researchers say future honeybee queens need not only royal jelly but also specially built wax chambers to develop properly

Honeybee queens come from ​the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen rather than just another worker? Until now, ⁠scientists believed it was solely because the chosen bee was ⁠served a special diet.