Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Cape Honeybee

I took this photo of a Cape Honeybee alighting on a nasturtium flower. The Cape Honeybee is unique. Every other bee in the world requires a queen-bee to lay female eggs. In the case of the Cape Honeybee, the female (the worker bee) can clone itself, to produce more females. Just north of here, one finds the African Honeybee, which is more of a brute. You may click on the photo to enlarge.

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