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Cornell University

Honeybees

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Worker honeybees construct a new comb, an important part of colony founding. Colonies of promiscuous queens tend to be far more successful in such chores and in surviving their first winter than colonies produced by monogamous queens, report Cornell researchers Tom Seeley and Heather Mattila in Science magazine.

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Heather R. Mattila/Cornell University

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