Bees have been around for at least 120 million years, when, Scientific American said, our own ancestors were “rat-like” creatures.
You’d think that’d give us plenty of time to learn about them. But so much information about their lives – like how exactly they fly, and why they can live underwater – has only been revealed relatively recently.
A new study, published in Nature, looked into how they choose their queens (the sole breeding females in the hive), too.
And it may not be as simple as giving them the famous specialised “royal jelly” secretions, which Read Entire Article
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