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by AdmiralAsshat 656 days ago
While fascinating, this is the kind of information I wish would have been buried in the article in four-point font, where it can't hurt anyone. Because you know someone will read it and then get starry-eyed about the possibilities of min/maxing the capabilities of a super-bee pollinator via cross-species breeding, gene manipulation, etc.

And that's how you get killer bees. Again.

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That's a great username for that sort of post.
No one who understands the hymenopterans can make this mistake. No one who could make this mistake understands the hymenopterans. The risk you see isn't present.