How is a queen bee chosen?

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Bees are among the world’s greatest pollinators, providing services to farmers alongside ensuring the proliferation of wildflowers, an essential component in global biodiversity. Yet habitat loss and

Daisy Dobrijevic discovers the queen bees and alpha females of the animal kingdom.

When I started studying honeybees in 1998, I quickly noticed just how much people loved them. I also realised that people’s knowledge rarely extended beyond “bees make honey” and “they live in hives”.

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