A new study, led by Wen Ping, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, unveiled the way they do it. The researcher stared studying the matter as he wondered whether a particular type of scent molecule might aid the ‘undertaker’ bees find the dead hive mates.

Chinese scientists have discovered a new begonia species in Yunnan Province in southwest China, removing another one from the list of many tuberous species estimated yet to be discovered or described in the country.