In This Bee Species, Why Do Some Daughters Leave Home While Others Stay 'Bee-hind' to Help Mom?
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Some types of bees are famous for their complex social structures. Honeybees, for instance, live in colonies with thousands of members, where each insect focuses on a specific job, such as caring for the reproductive queen or her offspring, foraging for food or guarding its home.
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Some types of bees are famous for their complex social structures. Honeybees, for instance, live in colonies with thousands of members, where each insect focuses on a specific job, such as caring for the reproductive queen or her offspring, foraging for food or guarding its home. Queens emit chemical signals called pheromones that play a large part in regulating and coordinating divisions of labor among the eusocial critters. But other kinds of bees have different lifestyles.
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- Some types of bees are famous for their complex social structures. Honeybees, for instance, live in colonies with thousands of members, where each insect focuses on a specific job, such as caring for the reproductive queen or her offspring, foraging for food or guarding its home.
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In This Bee Species, Why Do Some Daughters Leave Home While Others Stay 'Bee-hind' to Help Mom?
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