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Reproduction of honeybee colonies can be partitioned into two distinct categories: individual and colonial reproduction. Both are equally important and very specific in honeybees and will be discussed separately in this section.
If we admire the truly wonderful power of scent by which the males of many insects find their females, can we admire the production for this single purpose of thousands of drones, which are utterly useless to the community for any other end, and which are ultimately slaughtered by their industrious sterile sisters? (Darwin 1859)
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Moritz, R.F.A., Southwick, E.E. (1992). Reproduction. In: Bees as Superorganisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84666-3_6
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