Bee microbiome smells tell nestmates apart

The bacteria they carry, rather than the genetics of an individual bee, is what enables bees to recognise their colony members...
26 October 2020
Presented by Eva Higginbotham
Production by Chris Smith.

HONEY BEE

HONEY BEE

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How do bees recognise who’s a bona fide member of the nest and who is an impostor? It turns out that it’s down to the bacteria they carry inside them… Eva Higginbotham heard how Cassondra Vernier at Washington University in St Louis has figured it out with her colleague Yehuda Ben-Shahar...

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