A long-term project by former postdoc Bertrand Fouks has finally come to its conclusion in form of a publication entitled “Alternative double strand break repair pathways shape the evolution of high recombination in the honey bee, Apis mellifera.” At the same time former undergraduate researcher Tim DeLory (now PhD student with Karen Kapheim in Utah) has taken the lead to give a new perspective on the high recombination rates in social insects, published in the Annual Review of Genetics.