Did You Know? Boy Bees Have No Daddy's!!!!

[matcom]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Birds do it, bees do it -- well perhaps bees don't do it quite like birds and people do and scientists have found one piece of the puzzle.

The international team of researchers has discovered the gene that allows male bees to have no father.

"We found the section of honeybee genome responsible for the differentiation between female and male," Kim Fondrk of the University of California Davis, who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview.

The discovery helps explain a lot of things that are strange about bees and may help experts preserve endangered bee populations so they can keep the busy insects pollinating crops and wild flora.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=7&u=/nm/20030829/od_nm/bees_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. So, I guess "Who's Your Daddy?" is inappropriate.

Think of the money bees save on Father's Day cards.

[matcom]

2. what about the "Birds and the Bees"???

have they been lying to me all these years? :shrug:

David?? How are babies made??

:D

[GOPisEvil]

3. I dunno - I've never made one!

Plus, I went to public school in Texas, so I haven't learned all that much...

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Now the conservative pundits will be droning on...

about the menace to society represented by fatherless Africanized killer bees. :eyes:

[nuxvomica]

5. That explains all the buzzing

The workers are gossiping about the drones.