Scientists Find Genes That Let These Bees Reproduce Without Males

The female African South honey bees can reproduce asexually. Normally, honey bees reproduce sexually but studies have shown that in a small area in the Fynbos Ecoregion, the female will leave their homes to take control of other colonies. The female Cape honey bees will produces offsprings of her own and begin to control of the hive as a queen bee or become worker bees within those colonies. Scientist have tested the genomes between the Cape honey bees and the typical honey bees and explained that African South bees produces only female offspring when they reproduces asexually. They farther explained that this occurs because without the male chromosome presented during meiosis then only the XX chromosome appears. 





http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/science/bees-asexual-south-africa.html

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/164161/20160611/special-genes-allow-parasitic-bees-to-reproduce-even-without-males.htm