Study reveals evolutionary clues to honeybees' social complexity
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 09:40
in Biology & Nature
The complex social life of honeybees—with their queens and workers cooperating to produce honey—is deeply entrenched in the public's imagination. But the majority of the world's more than 20,000 bee species are solitary: One female mates, gathers provisions, lays eggs and walls them up with food in a secure spot.