Male honeybees might blind queens to keep them hive-bound
It turns out bee semen is kind of horrifying. A queen bee stashes all the sperm she’ll need to make a lifetime’s worth of babies in a few days. Let’s just start there. This virgin queen flies out from her nest to mate with as many as 90 male drones mid-flight (though usually more like a dozen), then …
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