Royal Jelly???

[Billy The Beekeeper]

 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

[bmacior]

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.

[Billy The Beekeeper]

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?

[Michael Bush]

I buy it in capsules at the health food store.  It's quite nutritious.