Not exact matches
The steps it
takes to go from being a
worker bee to a decision maker can be very difficult.
Fellow
worker bees then
take that information and forage accordingly.
The
worker bee then adds fatty acids from glands in her mouthparts, which
take the pH to around 4.
It is the first time that
workers have been caught
taking over the hives of other
bees.
Team leader Martin Bencsik has previously used sensors known as accelerometers to capture a distinct change in
bee sounds before the phenomenon known as swarming, which is when the queen quits the hive,
taking many of the
worker bees with her.
True for social
bees and wasps, ants
take this to an extreme: large winged queens ensure colony reproduction whereas smaller wingless
workers guarantee colony maintenance.
Why are the small steps being
taken falling to marginally resourced projects and
worker bees, volunteers, and SRL «testers» for whom we sometimes can not even raise the bus fare to participate in a tester focus group?