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
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