http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070719-bee-control.htmlThe queen honeybee would give Cinderella's wicked stepmother a run for her money.
A new study suggests the domineering matriarch regulates her daughters' brain activity to ensure her own survival.
"This is the first demonstration of [the queen's] pheromones acting directly on the brain," said study co-author Alison Mercer, a zoologist from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. "The fact that it's affecting the learning abilities of the young bees is unexpected."
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