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Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke – Livescience.com

The worker bees’ ability to clone themselves can be as destabilizing to the hives of other species as it is to their own.

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When hives of the African lowland honeybee
(Apis mellifera scutella) collapse, they do so because of an invisible inner threat: the growing, immortal clone
army of a rival bee subspecies.
That army is possible because the female workers of the rival subspecies…

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