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...

workers, only 0.44 percent of adult males were workers' sons. The numbers indicate the efficiency with which worker policing is carried out. Policing...

target worker-laid eggs over queen-laid eggs. Two forms that are probably most influential of policing are worker policing and selfish policing. Despite...

fibers. Unlike most other vespines, reproductive suppression involves worker policing instead of queen pheromone control, as was previously thought. This...

out worker policing and have a haplodiploid sex-determination system; this results in a high level of relatedness within the colony. The workers will...

sons of the queen and those of the other workers would decrease. The benefit of policing is negated, and policing is less favored. Experiments confirming...

species, queens destroy up to 70% of worker-laid eggs and are aided by workers in a process known as worker policing. P. chinensis is a member of the cosmopolitan...

interesting fact about Vespula rufa is that the queen policing occurs in the species, and that worker policing occurs at much lower rates than other species in...

(not a worker-laid egg). This shows us that worker policing does indeed work within populations of these bees. In these instances, worker policing occurs...

worker policing. Worker policing is thus a result of genetic conflicts of interest among workers used non-exclusively by honeybees and wasps. With worker policing...