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A citation might help your argument.

• scarmig 3y ago
  Since I was curious too, I dug up this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847503/#:~:text=Immediately https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847503/#:~:tex... Multiple males do mate with the queen, with the everted endophallus acting as a signal to other males and perhaps offering protection from the queen's stinger. Technical term seems to be "mating sign," and males prefer queens with a mating sign.
  • arp242 3y ago
    But there are 20,000 bee species, many of which are actually solitary. That just looks at the honey bee.