What does the Queen actually do, anyway?
Monarchies may be outdated – unless you’re a bee Insect societies are some of the most complex known to science. Indeed, the insect groups best known for their social success – ants, bees, wasps and termites – are perhaps the only animals that rival humans in the sheer scale of the societies they form. …
Sex and the single bee
One of the most enduring and confusing mysteries of life is sex. Why is everyone so obsessed with it? Why do we do it in the first place? The evolutionary imperative to pass on one’s genes is one thing, but even that doesn’t fully explain it. Even if you don’t consider all the non-reproductive sex …