Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => Bee News => Topic started by: efmesch on June 12, 2016, 05:43:26 pm
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As if laying workers and unmated queens aren't enough of a problem already, now it appears that unmated workers may be a new issue on the scene---laying eggs that produce females (not just drones).
Take a look at this link for the full story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/science/bees-asexual-south-africa.html?emc=eta1
Then again, maybe they'll be a solution rather than a problem. Who knows?