Zachary Huang wrote:

> 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.

The Hive and the Honey Bee states that royal jelly is fed to every
worker larva for the first three days and to the queen larva
continuously, so is this no longer true or are they wrong?

\Also from HHB, it is produced in a queenless colony from artificial
queen cells containing a 12-36 hour old larva which are discarded after
three days and the jelly harvested with a wooden spoon or suction.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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