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TIL during mating season, male Dawson’s bees try to bite each other to death in a frenzy, resulting in “whole generations of male bees wiping each other out” & in 1 male emerging to mate with the female. Dawson’s bees communities are harmonious for most of the year because all the males are dead.

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