Beebread and honey contain p-coumaric acid, but royal jelly does not. Queens feed exclusively on royal jelly. Worker bees known as nurses feed the larvae according to the needs of the hive.

A closer look at the miRNAs in beebread suggested that the 16 most abundant could bind to 96 bee genes, some of which are known to affect development. One was amTOR , a gene known to be more ...

Bee larvae develop into workers, in part, because their diet of pollen and honey, called beebread, is rich in plant regulatory molecules called microRNAs, which delay development and keep their ...

And the larvae that were not fed beebread (with the added microRNAs) grew up to be more queenlike. They had bigger bodies and larger ovaries. "Plant microRNAs really mediate the honeybee caste ...

Honeybees - employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season - encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to an analysis of the bee's own food.

Researchers from Nanjing University in China bee larvae born to be workers chiefly feed on a mixture of pollen and honey, known as 'beebread', rich in microRNAs, that silences certain genes.

Honeybee larvae develop into workers but not queens, in part, because their diet of beebread/pollen is enriched in plant miRNAs. While miRNAs are generally negative regulators of gene expression ...

Beebread is plant-based and is a mixture of pollen and nectar, while royal jelly is secreted by the other bees. Plant-Based And Animal-Based Food.

The changing British landscape could be contributing to the decline in our bee populations, according to Lancaster University research. Analysis of 35 hives in 20 sites in North West England found ...

Protein levels in beebread vary because not all pollen is equal. Some species of plant produce pollens naturally very high in protein, and some not so.