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The semen of male honey bees contains a poison that makes queens temporarily lose their sight after sex, in what scientists described as a "sexual arms race." In most social insectsthe category encompassing creatures like ants, bees, and waspsthe queen mates…

With that mentality in mind, Canadian company Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT) has come up with a deeply strange but also fascinating approach. What if we could use fungus to kill fungus? And what if that first fungus was applied not by humans or machines, bu…