Talk:Honey Bee/@comment-5983727-20200818023950

I have been wondering if perhaps the MGE Honey Bee shares more characteristics with real-life honeybees than we thought.

I recall reading about them a while back, and IIRC, it's said that the queens actually go and visit other hives and plant newborn larvae there to allow for diversity.

That got me thinking while reading up on this equally lovely Honey Bee. Do the Queens, old and new, occasionally have sex parties where visiting queens are encouraged to get pregnant and offer their newborn daughters to grow up in the hosting queen's hive?