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Feeding the bees: mama doesn’t treat them equally

10/12/2012 by Ellen Wallace

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – I’ll never look at my garden bees in the same way again, knowing what those queen sweat bees are up to. Researchers at the University of Lausanne have shown that queen bees limit the food their first batch of daughters receive. The first brood remains small, workers who help raise the second […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: bees, daughters, feeding, mothers, reproduction, University of Lausanne research, workers

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