Why do bees have queens? 2 biologists explain this insect’s social structure – and why some bees don’t have a queen at all
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 bees don’t have queens. With about 20,000 species of bees worldwide – that’s […]
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 bees don’t have queens. With about 20,000 species of bees worldwide – that’s
