HEAR YE, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen — and she’s very hard at work. She must ...
But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...
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