The Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is unique among honeybees in
that workers can lay eggs that instead
of developing into males develop into females via thelytokous
parthenogenesis.
 
Reply:
No it is not unique among honeybees in that all races looked at by Mackenson and Roberts and others showed this trait......it's just been bread down by factory farming beekeepers not practicing modified line/outmating breeding for the backup it gave to beekeepers for raising queens of own early on. Nothing hard actually.....
 
Dee A. Lusby
 


 


      

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