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There’s A Horror Movie In Here Somewhere
Jul. 2nd, 2021 09:58 amAt least if you are a beekeeper. Conceivably these super-laying workers could wipe out all other bees in their area. https://www.livescience.com/bee-creates-perfect-clone-army.html
A little background on the problem: a queen bee normally does all the hive’s egg-laying, and she puts out pheromones that suppress the workers’s ability to lay. A few workers will always manage to lay eggs anyway; normally there aren’t enough of those to cause a big problem, and the bees will manage the situation themselves. But now and then a LOT of workers will lay eggs, as described in the article.
A little background on the problem: a queen bee normally does all the hive’s egg-laying, and she puts out pheromones that suppress the workers’s ability to lay. A few workers will always manage to lay eggs anyway; normally there aren’t enough of those to cause a big problem, and the bees will manage the situation themselves. But now and then a LOT of workers will lay eggs, as described in the article.
