OK do all baby bee's get royal jelly or just the queen ive been beekeeping for 5 yrs now and still dont know if its any different... I also heard you can buy it, but im sure its hard to get if you can so can someone give me some info on this TY
Billy Bee's
The diets of workers, queens, and drones are entirely dissimilar. Brood food recipes for each involve differing ratios of the two glandular products (each is the product of bees of a different age); a quantity of honey is then added, the amount being caste dependent. While all larvae are fed royal jelly, the worker and drone diet is downgraded after 3 days in quantity and to a lesser quality of food known as bee bread. Royal jelly, which is fed to the queen larvae for the entire larval stage, is a combination of high-protein pollen, high-carbohydrate honey, and enzymes produced by nurse bees. Bee bread is a combination of honey and pollen.
oh ok i got another ? for you that you might be able to answer... i heard you can buy royal jelly and also heard that some people actually eat it... What do you think about that?
I buy it in capsules at the health food store. It's quite nutritious.