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Gene-regulatory context of honey bee worker sterility
Biosystems, 2020The 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 +2 more
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When Workers Disunite: Intraspecific Parasitism by Eusocial Bees
Annual Review of Entomology, 2008One of the most obvious characteristics of an insect society is reproductive cooperation. Yet insect colonies are vulnerable to reproductive parasitism, both by workers from their own colony and by workers from others. Little is known about the mechanisms insect societies have evolved to protect themselves from being exploited from within and outside ...
Madeleine, Beekman, Benjamin P, Oldroyd
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Brain Allometry in Bumblebee and Honey Bee Workers
Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2005Within 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 ...
Stefanie, Mares +2 more
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Retinue Behaviour of Worker Honey Bees
2023Different queen pheromones attract colonial workers who respond by forming a surrounding group around the stationary queen. This specific behaviour is considered retinue behaviour. Workers lick, groom, and antennate the queen to get pheromones which influence workers' behaviour, physiology, development, hormones, reproduction, etc.
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Queen bee venom contains much less phospholipase than worker bee venom
Insect Biochemistry, 1981Abstract Phospholipase A 2 in queen bee venom was measured by direct enzymatic analysis, by the wheal/flare reaction of an allergic individual, and by translation of the venom gland m RNA in a wheat germ system. These analyses showed that on a weight for weight basis, venom from queen bees contains no more than one fortieth of the phospholipase ...
Richard Marz +3 more
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Worker policing in the bee Apis florea
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2001Apis 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 +5 more
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Honey bee workers as mobile insulating units
Insectes Sociaux, 2005Heat-shielding is a method used by honey bee workers to insulate temperature sensitive brood from localized heat stress during development. Due largely to data collection techniques, heat-shielding has been defined as stationary bees congregating with their ventral side facing the heat stress.
A. J. Siegel +3 more
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Communication between the Workers of Stingless Bees
Bee World, 1960RESUMO1. 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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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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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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The Canadian Entomologist, 1977
AbstractExperiments were done in an attempt to ascertain the significance of the mandibular glands of nurse bees in female caste differentiation. Groups of 30 or 75, 10-day-old nurse bees, with their mandibular glands removed, were caged in the laboratory. Each group was provided with female larvae in plastic queen cell cups.
Ying-Shin Peng, S. C. Jay
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AbstractExperiments were done in an attempt to ascertain the significance of the mandibular glands of nurse bees in female caste differentiation. Groups of 30 or 75, 10-day-old nurse bees, with their mandibular glands removed, were caged in the laboratory. Each group was provided with female larvae in plastic queen cell cups.
Ying-Shin Peng, S. C. Jay
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