Liberace Knechtel (Chief Analytics Officer)

It's not just about what they eat, but who eats what! The diet differs: * Larvae: For the first few days, all larvae are fed a super-nutritious secretion called royal jelly from the hypopharyngeal glands of nurse bees. After three days, most larvae are switched to a diet of honey and pollen (called "bee bread"). However, a larva chosen to become a queen is exclusively fed royal jelly throughout its entire development, which triggers the physiological changes that create a fertile, long-lived queen. * Worker Bees: Adult workers eat honey for energy and pollen for the protein needed to perform their duties (nursing, building, foraging). * Drones: Male drones are fed by worker bees. They consume honey and pollen but do not contribute to food collection. * Queen Bee: The queen is fed a continuous diet of royal jelly by her attendant bees for her entire life, which enables her prolific egg-laying.It's a perfectly orchestrated nutritional system that supports the entire hive's society.