To house or oust: Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies can evaluate and evict drones of low quality

IR Gilchrist, JM Nixon, RR Shultz, MD Ginzel… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Across the animal kingdom, males advertise their quality to potential mates. Males of low
reproductive quality, such as those that are sick, may be excluded from mating. In eusocial …