NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive.

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role.

Worker bee construction behaviour actively engineers a physicochemical niche that is crucial for queen development in honey bees.

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive.

The honeybees responsible for crafting the queen's home effectively run a fever to help blend special wax.

For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges. But new research suggests…