Apis mellifera is the only insect to be artificially inseminated.

eliochel
Feb 5, 2023
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Seriously! If you would like to learn how to inseminate honey bee queens, workshops are offered at Washington State University's Bee Lab and at many other locations throughout the US.

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Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.

Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.

Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

Bees "hear" with their legs.

It makes sense that bees would "hear" the vibrations we call sound waves with their antennae, but "hearing" with their legs? A group, of sensors on the bee's tibia, called the subgenual organ, pick up

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Apis mellifera is the only insect to be artificially inseminated.

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