Royal jelly aka queen bee milk is believed to keep a secret youth and longevity. Research shows, queen bee can live 40 times longer than worker bees because always eat a very special type of honey this.
This type is called a dairy queen honey or royal jelly because his form of thick white like milk. In a colony of bees, honey is a special food that is only dedicated to the queen bee and no worker bees are allowed to eat it.
One of the nutrients contained in royal jelly is royalactin, a protein that plays an important role in the growth process. That's why the queen bee can grow with the size 42 percent larger and 60 percent more weight than the worker bees.
Not only that, royalactin content also makes the queen bee able to survive longer. If the average worker bee lives for 7 week course, the queen bee can reach the age of 7 years or about 40 times longer than worker bees.
Initially, experts suspect the age difference and the size of bee queens with worker bees are located on genetic factors. But a recent study in Japan shows, more royal jelly have a role in shaping the caste differences in a weak colony.
To prove it, Dr. Masaki Kamakura from Toyama Prefectural University compared the effects of the bee queen royalactin with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Fruit flies are usually small in size, grow larger when given royal jelly.
"The difference with the queen bee worker bees not only on genetic factors, but more on royal jelly. Even so the mechanism is not yet known for sure," said Dr. Kamakura in a report published in the journal Nature, as reported from Daily mail, Monday (04/25/2011 .)
In humans, the benefits of royal jelly has been known since the time of Ancient Egypt. Queens of the time used it to beautify the skin, while in the process of burial was used as a mixture of honey to preserve corpses in order to become mummies.
While at the present time, various beauty products also use royal jelly because it is believed to inhibit the aging process causes dull skin and wrinkles. Herb plants libido or sex drive too much to use royal jelly because it is believed to boost vitality.
What a neat way of working bees. There is a place for the queen laying eggs, as well as the stud and food warehouses. Diligent worker wasps feed the queen.
At first glance, the bees are kept busy moving it seems the same shape and color, but when examined each have different characteristics. Queen bee seen more silent. In larger colonies, where the number of worker wasps also more, it will be difficult to find out where the queen bee.
To obtain pollen bee pollen or male flowers attached to the legs of bees, also created a tool with a hollow body sized wasp. Later the wasps that will go into the holes, while pollens located at the foot of a maximum of two pieces, will be left outside.
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