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Cape Honey Bee

Apis mellifera capensis

About

A unique honey bee subspecies where workers can lay diploid female eggs without mating. It is restricted to the winter rainfall region of South Africa.

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Did You Know?

Worker bees of this subspecies can clone themselves through a rare reproductive process called thelytokous parthenogenesis.