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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: No Reproductive Rights in Insect "Police States," Study Finds


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A new study shows that Asian paper wasps, like the one pictured here, deal less harshly with workers who attempt to lay eggs than honeybees do. Most worker-laid eggs survive in Asian paper wasp colonies, while nearly all get killed in honeybee hives, the researchers found.

Photograph © E. Billig, courtesy Nature