Cape honey bees are just the bees’ knees at reproduction

10 May 2020 - 00:00

By dave chambers AND Dave Chambers

Thousands of virgin births take place every year in a vicious Cape matriarchy, and scientists who have found the gene responsible for the phenomenon say it could explain the origin of sex.

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