Ever wonder why female honeybees have so many male mates? Me neither, because that's something I'm totally not interested in. (Alright, I'm really, really, totally interested in it, but I have to keep up this act of being a cool guy so the most popular girl in the whole school will go to prom with me. Hopefully hijinks and a quasi-lucrative teen comedy romp will ensue!)

Nonetheless, Cornell scientists, with all their science laboratories and science books and science tools and science glasses and science science, have studied "promiscuous queens" (I thought of drag queens too, it's okay*) to find out exactly why.  It turns out that such queens (muffled laughter) produce genetically diverse colonies which are far more productive than their prude, "I'll-only-sleep-with-you-if-you're-'the-one'-and-I'm-conscious" counterparts.

I have a simpler solution, though.  Maybe these queen honeybees are having so much crazy, drunken, sticky-sweet, honey-coated bee-sex because they got it like that.

*I hope

Thanks to TheLaneTraine for the tip, and yes, I do want to ride your locomotive. I choo-choo-choose you!