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Communication between the Workers of Stingless Bees

Bee World, 1960
RESUMO1. Todas as especies de Meliponini ate agora examinadas (10 especies no Brasil e 1 em Ceilao), dispoe de meios de intercomunicafao, por meio dos quais as abelhas sem ocupacao na colmeia podem ser alarmadas, isto e, levadas a sair e procurar um determinado lugar.2.
M. Lindauer, W. E. Kerr
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Worker policing in the bee Apis florea

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001
Apis florea is a single-combed, open-nesting, dwarf honeybee indigenous to Asia. In common with other species of this genus, A. florea is highly polyandrous, and is therefore predicted to curtail worker reproduction by mutual policing mechanisms that keep worker reproduction at an extremely low level.
Luke A. Halling, Piyamas Nanork, Andrew B. Barron, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Siriwat Wongsiri, Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen   +5 more
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LARVAL REARING BY WORKER HONEY BEES LACKING THEIR MANDIBULAR GLANDS: II. REARING BY LARGER NUMBERS OF WORKER BEES

The Canadian Entomologist, 1977
AbstractFurther experiments were done in an attempt to ascertain the significance of the mandibular glands of nurse bees in female caste differentiation. Groups of 200, 10-day-old nurse bees, with their mandibular glands removed, fed female larvae for 80 h in plastic queen cell cups in the laboratory.
Ying-Shin Peng, S. C. Jay
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Brain Allometry in Bumblebee and Honey Bee Workers

Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2005
Within a particular animal taxon, larger bodied species generally have larger brains. Increased brain size usually correlates with increased behavioral repertoires and often with superior cognitive abilities. Bumblebees are eusocial insects that show pronounced size polymorphism among workers, whereas in honey bees size variation is much less ...
Lesley E. Ash, Wulfila Gronenberg, S. W. Mares   +2 more
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Gene-regulatory context of honey bee worker sterility

Biosystems, 2020
The highly organized societies of the Western honey bee Apis mellifera feature a highly reproductive queen at the center of attention and a large cohort of daughters that suppress their own reproduction to help rear more sisters, some of whom become queens themselves.
Alex W. Guoth, Anna M. Chernyshova, Graham J. Thompson   +2 more
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Instructions to the Worker Bee

2018
I frame the Nebraska poet Lucy Adkins’ poem of this same name as an array of helpful allegorical windowpanes, and describe the terrain of classroom collaboration (or the lack of it) as viewed helpfully through this window.
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A portable incubator for worker bee brood

Bee World, 2003
The construction and function of a self-warmed, portable incubator for sealed worker honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood is described here. This incubator can be used by both static and migratory beekeepers. The prerequisites of a rational use of a portable incubator in the early to middle spring are cited.
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Worker Matricide in Social Bees and Wasps

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1994
Abstract In bumble bees (Bombus) and vespine wasps (Vespa, Vespula, Dolichovespula), workers have regularly been observed to kill their colony's single queen (worker matricide). Workers gain a fitness payoff in worker-produced males from matricide because it removes the queen's inhibition over their reproduction.
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Worker Bees and Slave Labor

2017
Work connotes activity, effecting or bringing something about. The worker does something physically and/or mentally, and whatever is “worked” has been acted upon. Work is a denial of passivity, and thus a manifestation of force or power. Indeed, the association of work with force sometimes invites a further conjunction between work and violence.
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