Worker bees select royal (sub)family members, not their own supersisters, to be new queens
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
When honey bees need a new emergency queen, they forego the chance to promote members of their own worker subfamilies, opting instead to nurture larvae of "royal" subfamilies, according to a study published July 11 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by James Withrow and David Tarpy of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.