Queen Bee | Back Garden Biology 4 with Dr Lindsay Turnbull
Channel: The Queen's College, Oxford
Date: 2020-04-22

In March and April queen bumblebees shake off their winter sleep and emerge to found new colonies. In this episode, we learn how to identify the commonest garden species and find out why they are always on the move. Bees, like all species of ants, bees and wasps, have a highly unusual system to determine whether new bees will be male or female. But although all worker bees are female, the queen tries to prevent her daughters from having offspring of their own.

Dr Lindsay Turnbull is an Associate Professor and Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford University.

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