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Honeybees are not the original pollinators. They evolved from predatory wasps that switched to a vegetarian diet about 100 million years ago. The transition from hunting to foraging was accompanied by changes in their genes, brains, and social behaviour. Honeybees are the result of a remarkable evolutionary transformation.

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