Sentences with phrase «such a worker bee»

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Faced with such a resilient foe, a group of worker bees resorted to coating the beetles in a sticky mix of resin, mud and wax.

According to Hamilton, altruistic behavior, such as a worker bee caring for young produced by a queen rather than producing and caring for its own offspring, can evolve if the worker is closely related to the queen's young.

To establish that it happens in nature, too, Vargo and his colleagues collected 30 colonies of the destructive Reticulitermes speratus, a Japanese species related to most common termites in the U.S. Like bees and ants, termites are social insects that have different castes for different jobs (such as workers and royalty).

Kirchner compared the behaviour of worker bees subjected to such vibrations every five seconds for an hour, with worker bees that experienced no vibrations for an hour.

Natural selection should eliminate such behaviors, yet there are many examples (alarm calling in squirrels, helpers at the nest in scrub jays, sterile worker castes in honey bees etc.) in which animals appear to cooperate despite an apparent disadvantage to the donor.