Royal Jelly is the only product produced by the body off a bee apiary.
Royal Jelly comes from the gland of nurse bees. Ordinary worker bees eat royal jelly for three first days, while the queen bees eat royal jelly for the rest of her life. Queen bees proved can live 40 times longer than ordinary worker bees. Queen bees also produce up to 2000 eggs per day, while the other female bees do not produce eggs.
March 26th, 2011 at 3:03 am
. Royal jelly is secreted by the hypo-pharyngeal gland located below the pharynx in the head of young worker honey bees brood food glands . Worker bees secrete royal jelly into a queen cell an extra large brood cell in which a female larva is fed on special food and develops into a queen a sexually reproductive female . Royal jelly like beeswax is a secretion of worker bees and as such as a more constant composition than honey or pollen which are derived from plants.