Can females rule the hive? The controversy over honey bee gender roles in British beekeeping texts of the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries

@JefDelvaux ...Frederick Prete's "Can the Female Rule the Hive" (https://t.co/za11w9Pyfr — it's on SciHub) has some hilarious examples of British apiologists being like "the beehive is the Perfect Model Society, so this *must* be how gender works there; ob