Royal Jelly

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Statistics Serving of royal jelly A highly nutritious bee secretion eaten only by the queen bee. Stackable: Not Stackable Food Effects: (3 hours, All Races) MP recovered while healing +3	Other Uses Used in Quests: Hoist the Jelly, Roger Resale Price: 150~153 gil
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes Chocolixir - Alchemy (82) Cursed Soup - Cooking (100) Elixir - Alchemy (90)
Desynthesis Recipe None	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Cannot be auctioned, traded, or bazaared.

Dropped From

Name	Level	Zone
Death Jacket	40-42	Crawlers' Nest
Worker Pephredo	62-63	Wajaom Woodlands
Wespe	63-65	Crawlers' Nest (S)
Soldier Pephredo	64-65	Wajaom Woodlands
Demonic Tiphia (NM)	60	Crawlers' Nest
Death from Above (NM)	62	Temple of Uggalepih
Awd Goggie (NM)	68	Crawlers' Nest

Historical Background

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of the larvae. It is secreted from the hypopharyngeal glands in the heads of young workers and used (amongst other substances) to feed all of the larvae in the colony, including those destined to become workers. If a queen is needed, the hatchling will receive only royal jelly - and in large quantities - as its food source for the first four days of its growth, and this rapid, early feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs. Some commercial royal jelly suppliers disseminate misinformation such as "Only queen larvae and adult queens are fed royal jelly"; the fact remains that all larvae in a colony are fed royal jelly, and adult bees do not consume it at all.

Human ingestion of royal jelly is reputed to cause severe even fatal allergic reactions in rare cases.