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Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been laid by other workers rather than those laid by a queen. Worker policing
Worker policing is found in honey bees and other hymenopterans including some species of bumblebees, ants and wasps.
Formica fusca ants can recognize nest-mates
Apis mellifera workers remove worker-laid eggs by eating them (oophagy)
Worker of Harpegnathos saltator killing a foreign queen
Hymenoptera
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Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of
Worker policing
…Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans (ants, bees, and wasps) whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been laid by other workers rather than those laid by a queen. Worker policing…
Hymenoptera
Bombus muscorum drinking nectar with its long proboscis
Symphyta, without a waist: the sawfly Arge pagana
Apocrita, with narrow waist: the wasp Vespula germanica