A little girl eating a live queen larva

This is a litttle girl eating live queen bees with royal jelly. Wouldn’t really recommend that ;) … But after seeing this photo I realized that this gallery is one of the best bee galleries I have ever come across! Zachary Huang took some really fascinating images of the bee anatomy.

Two bee body parts responsible for producing royal jelly:

Mandible with the mandibular gland:
royal jelly in a bee

Hypopharyngeal glands:

(CopyRights: Zachary Huang)

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