CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden studies social behavior of bees losing their leader

When a queen bee dies, her daughters select a lucky egg and feed it with royal jelly in hope of creating a suitable replacement. But the egg doesn’t always hatch. When that happens, the bee colony enters a state of anarchy, and a third of the workers starts laying eggs and seem able to juggle the challenges of work (collecting pollen) and motherhood.

CAS news release, Sept. 29, 2015

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