Jun 6
6 min read
The True Story of an Immortal Honeybee
She has cloned herself millions of times over the past three decades
When hives of the African lowland honeybees (Apis mellifera scutella) collapse, they do so because of an invisible inner threat: the growing, immortal clone army of a rival bee subspecies.
That army is possible because the female workers of the rival subspecies — the South African Cape honeybee (Apis…
