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Pheromones of a Tropical Queen Bee Decide if the Daughters Stay Next to Them Workers
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The queen bee of the genus Megalopta, native to the Latin American tropics, uses her pheromones to indicate to her daughters whether they remain at her side as workers, "sacrificing their fertility", or become independent to form their own colony, according to scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) of Panama. "Chemical signs such as these can stabilize incipient insect societies, gaining time for social complexity to …
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