The biology of the honey bee
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...A colony of honey bees achieves a high level of organization via dynamic division of labor, communications, and distributed decision making [93, 92, 116]....
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..., nonreproductive female) honeybees (373)....
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...This condition occurred because both the fecundity and longevity of the queen (17) underlie the social continuum that allows colonies to repeatedly build up to a size where reproduction by fission (swarming) and drone (male) production is possible (comparative information in ref....
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...Workers may live up to 10 months (19–21), but lifespans are typically 4–6 weeks (17)....
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...The queen may produce 1,500 eggs daily (17) and survive for 1–5 years (18)....
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