A honeybee pollinates a flower on a lamb's ear plant. A researcher in Miami University is working to build a better honey bee, using "instrumental insemination" to fertilise desirable queen bees using well-groomed male bees. – File Photo: AFP
Miami University researcher Alexander Zomchek is working to build a better honey bee, using "instrumental insemination" to fertilise desirable queen bees using well-groomed male bees.
Believe it or not, a key trait to help the endangered honey bee survive is its cleanliness: how well it grooms itself to brush away harmful and infected parasites.
