SOCIAL CASTE TRIGGERS. “Honeybee larvae destined to be queens are fed exclusively on royal jelly, which contains a glycoprotein allohormone pheromone, royalactin. This acts on a fat body signaling cascade, resulting in raised juvenile hormone levels. When development is complete, queens are very different from workers: they are larger, have different neural circuits and behaviours, have functioning reproductive systems, and will live ten times as long.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022