Some basic biology i’ve learned is that inbreeding causes problems because the genes aren’t diverse enough, but insects breed with what’s essentially their mother. How does that work?
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They don’t mate with their mothers. Young queen bees will leave the hive, meet with drones from other hives, mate, and then start their own colony. All the workers are basically clones, but the actually fertile members of the hives do exchange genetic material with other hives.
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