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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Shreya Biswas

Earlier this year, Smithsonian scientists decoded the pheromones that determine whether bee daughters stay home or leave. It produced surprising clues about how simple insect societies evolve into complex communities

Bee pheromones : For some bees, growing up does not necessarily mean leaving the family nest. In flexible bee societies, daughters can either remain at home and help their mother or leave to reproduce on their own.

A new study has helped explain how those decisions are influenced by chemical signals produced by the queen.

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