ild, free-roaming queen bees in search of a new kingdom are often lured to commercial hives, where resident workers murder the queens almost as soon as they get through the door. However, it’s not all bad news: a new) pollinate crops. When the team opened up the commercial-style hives they had set up around the Finger Lakes region of New York, they found that dead wild queens piled up just inside the entrance of every one. On average, each hive had ten dead queens, but the record was 19. Most of the dead queens were , but some of the murdered matriarchs belonged to the closely related species , commonly known as the confusing bumblebee.
