the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > queen bee > substance produced by (1)
queen substance1954
a mixture of pheromones produced by a queen honeybee, which inhibits the development of the worker bees' ovaries and prevents them from constructing…