There is no place to store royal jelly except in queen cells... Young workers are the
live "storage" because they have the hypopharyngeal glands fully developed, also
mandibular glands. The mixture of the two glandular secretions are royal jelly... they
only secret the product when receiving the correct stimuli, i.e. queen larvae in cells.
They also pass around some jelly for foragers, adult queen and drones -- this is only
known recently.

So to produce royal jelly, basically you create the same condition as queen rearing.
Except you can graft a little larger larvae, wait for 3 days, and threw away the queen
larvae and then scoop up the royal jelly.

Zachary Huang
www.msu.edu/~bees

>I would like to know more about where the bees keep the royal jelly they
>feed the queen or is there any where to store it in the frame.  So many
>products say it has royal jelly in it and I think there's no way to get it
>if it's not stored in hive.
>
>Thanks,
>don
>

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