Worker policing
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worker-policing-220-3976658
title:
Worker policing
text:
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 ensures that the offspring of the queen will predominate in the group. In certain species of bees, ants and wasps, workers or the queen may also act aggressively towards fertile workers. Worker policing has been suggested as a form of coercion to promote the evolution of altruistic behavior in euso
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encyclopedia
description:
Insects destroying eggs not laid by queen
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_policing
date created:
2012-10-11T04:39:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T18:48:03Z
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