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1 Entomology: A Bee Farming a Fungus
Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Duur K. Aanen  Current Biology  Volume 25, Issue 22, Pages R1072-R1074 (November 2015) DOI: /j.cub Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Royal farming. A physogastric queen (also called ‘egg-laying queen’) of Scaptotrigona depilis inspecting a brood cell recently filled by the workers with larval food before laying the egg. After laying the egg, another worker will close the cell with cerumen. The egg will hatch three days later, when the fungus starts proliferating. The fungus grows until the third day of larval development and is gradually eaten by the larvae. (Photo: Christiano Menezes.) Current Biology  , R1072-R1074DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions


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