Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair | Science News
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Bumblebee queens aren’t lazy — their tongues just aren’t optimized for nectar collection 🐝 Blame physics, not work ethic. Queens forage less efficiently because their tongues are less hairy than worker bees’, making nectar harder to collect. 🎥 Stefan de Konink/Zexiang Huang, Shumeng Wu, Qinglin Wu/draganab #Bumblebee #Physics #QueenBee #Science Read the full article: www.sciencenews.org/article/queen-bumblebees-tongue-hair-foraging Read more science news at www.sciencenews.org Sign up for our newsletter — a weekly roundup of the latest scientific breakthroughs, delivered every Thursday. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for evidence-based science reporting and explainers.
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