All social insects are characterized by a reproductive division of labor. Within a colony only a
few individuals reproduce (queens and in termites, also a king) while the large majority …

“The story of the Cape bee is a kind of coloured flower in most of the books on the biology of
honeybees. It is astonishing and amusing and not quite believable. It remains a curious story …

Social insects can sense colony size—even without visual information in a dark
environment. How they achieve this is yet largely unknown. We empirically tested a …

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are waxy compounds on the surface of insects that prevent
desiccation and frequently serve as chemical signals mediating social and mating …

Sexually dimorphic glands have convergently appeared in animals and are often
responsible for the production of pheromones. In the suborder Laniatores of the order …

Eusocial species live in colonies with a reproductive division of labour into fertile
reproductive castes and sterile non-reproductive castes, an overlap of generations and …

A trademark of eusocial insect species is reproductive division of labor, in which workers
forego their own reproduction while the queen produces almost all offspring. The presence …

Orchid bees are the only corbiculate bee lineage that is not obligately eusocial. However,
multiple species of orchid bee show facultative sociality, with reproductive division of labor …

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Independent-and swarm-founding wasps represent two discrete social syndromes, differing
from each other in a number of traits that include colony size, level of social complexity …