Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jack by emailing [email protected] Fascinating up-close footage showing how honey bees go about killing a queen bee has been scaring up a storm ...

Interestingly, expression of the Anarchy gene goes up if a worker is exposed to a queen. This discovery proved to be the linchpin. In a normal honey bee colony, the queen secretes a pheromone that ...

Because only one female honey bee in the hive gets to be queen, the other female honey bees are relegated to the status of worker bees. The way this hierarchy shakes out is through phermone exposure.