Mary Bates, PhD

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New on Zoologic: Sneaky Queen Bees

Photograph by Cícero R. C. Omena, distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license.Stingless Melipona bees seemingly overproduce queens. Where do all those queens go? A new study has the answer, and shows these queens have to be sneaky in order to get their own colony over which to rule. Read the post at Zoologic: The Sneaky Queen Gets The Colony.