“To me, queen cells [growth chambers] have long seemed important,” he says. Odors from a growing queen may permeate its walls, he says. This might mark these cells as “very special spots that workers recognize and don’t accidentally damage.”, as quoted by Thomas Seeley, Horace White Professor in Biology, Emeritus from the neurobiology and behavior department at Cornell University in ScienceNewsExplores. Read the story in ScienceNewsExplores.
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