Royal Jelly is the highly nutritive hormone-charged food fed exclusively to the Queen Bee.  All bees start life the same; the Queen is not genetically superior.  It is the royal diet which transforms an ordinary bee larva into a Queen.  The Queen Bee is made - not born.  Only the baby larvae destined to be reared as Queens are pampered and fed this very special royal milk.

       Royal jelly is manufactured by "nurse bees", who must bypass honey and eat a powerful diet of richly nutritive bee pollen in order to produce the royal milk.  Baby queens still in their waxen nursery-cells literally "swim" in a tiny pool of liquid royal jelly, which they greedily eat as larvae and in the pupal stage of development.  A mature Queen Bee drinks the royal milk directly from the pharyngeal glands of the "nurse bees" of her court.

The Queen Bee enjoys many miraculous advantages over the ordinary bees of the hive.

The Queen live for six to seven years; the workers die exhausted in six to seven weeks.

The Queen is the only member of the hive able to mate and reproduce the species; the worker bees are sexless.

The Queen lays eggs weighing more than her own body weight everyday, and incredible feat.

The Queen is of superior beauty, size, strenght and ability.  Her superior characteristics are visible to the naked eye.

It is Royal Jelly which sets the Queen Bee apart from the sexless workers of the hive.  It is royal jelly which enables the Queen Bee alone of all the bees in the hive to mate and reproduce.  It is royal jelly which transforms the Queen Bee into such a superior specimen.  And it is royal jelly which dramatically extends her natural lifespan.

Historical Considerations

Physicians ministering to the maharajahs and maharanees of ancient India dispensed royal jelly to insure fertility and continuation of the royal lineage.

Oriental potentates relied of royal jelly for its magical power to rekindle exhausted sexual desires and restore lost potency.

The fabled ability of royal jelly to dramatically rejuvenate the body and extend the lifespan was once known only to royalty and others of great wealth.

The secret has been passed on.  Starting with Queen Victoria, who had the longest reign in English history, it has been reliably reported all British Royals take royal jelly daily.

When we ship Royal Jelly is has to be refrigerated. It is necessary for us to pack it in refrigerated packing this cost is reflected in the total cost plus shipping.  

Since we are frequently out and about, e-mail is the most efficient method of reaching us:

Brian@ojaivalleybeefarm.com