When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
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LEFT: A queen bee and workers on brood comb. RIGHT: The queen bee laying an egg, surrounded by a retinue of workers. Queen bee laying an egg, surrounded by a retinue of workers. Bees are tucked into ...
Anyone who has kept honeybees will tell you that for all that is known about this plucky insect, there is much more shrouded in mystery. The biggest, and most worrying, puzzle these past two years has ...