Columbus Surpassed: Biophysical Aspects of How Stingless Bees Place an Egg Upright on Their Liquid Food

摘要

The highly eusocial stingless bees (reviewed in 1, 2) constitute a phylo-genetically old group within the Apidae. Probably related to this ancient origin is their mass provisioning of brood cells: they deposit all the food on which the larva will develop into the brood cell, prior to oviposi-tion and subsequent closure of the cell.