See "Stealth Bees" in the archives.

"We found bees with characteristics of both workers and queens in African
honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata colonies, African usurpation swarms and
in colonies of European honey bees, Apis mellifera, in the southwestern United
States. We call these females intermorphs. Intermorphs might influence
worker-queen interactions and possibly influence the invasion of European
honey bee colonies by African bees."

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