User:Gerald S. Walton/sandbox

The Diet of Honeybees. -->

I can find no information on how honeybees obtain the nutrients need to build the material in their skeleton, wings or other skeletal parts. I am a physical scientist, with no background in biology, but it is clear to me that these parts do not come from fructose alone. Hummingbirds have been found to be excellent insectivores, and honeybees are known to have evolved from hornets, but it is more reasonable to believe that the young are nurtured from birth with royal jelly. This question came to my mind last night while watching Neil DeGras Tyson last night on TV.

In other words, I am in over my head and know it an hoping that someone either has an answer or will be interested in finding an answer. I have done enough editing that I can take as well as give.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Gerald S. Walton