Royal jelly is actually a thick, milky white substance produced from glands near the head of worker bees as well as fed to the hives queen from her larval stages and up into adulthood. The reason why the queen bee gets this royal jelly is to aid with her growth. It would seem that the royal jelly acts on the juvenile hormones in the growing queens body and this allows her to mature while the worker bees, which aren't offered royal jelly, remain in a state of physical immaturity. A hives queen
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