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Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western
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- Bumblebee colonies typically have from 50 to 200 bees at peak population, which occurs in mid to late summer.
- Many bumblebees are eusocial, similar to the eusocial Vespidae such as hornets in that the queen initiates a nest on her own rather than by swarming.
- They practise mass provisioning, with complex nest architecture and perennial colonies also established via swarming.
- Stingless bees are also highly eusocial.
- Africanized bees are a hybrid strain of A. mellifera that escaped from experiments involving crossing European and African subspecies; they are extremely defensive.
- There are 29 subspecies of one of these species, Apis mellifera, native to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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- Their colonies are established by swarms, consisting of a queen and several thousand workers.
- True honey bees (genus Apis, of which eight species are currently recognized) are highly eusocial, and are among the best known insects.
- when the castes are morphologically discrete, the system is considered highly eusocial.
- the system is considered primitively eusocial, as in many paper wasps;
- When the castes are purely behavioural alternatives, with no morphological differentiation other than size,
- The group is called eusocial if, in addition, the group consists of a mother (the queen) and her daughters (workers).
- and if there is a division of labour within the group, they are considered semisocial.
- In some species, groups of cohabiting females may be sisters,
- This division of labour creates specialized groups within eusocial societies which are called castes.
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- these are characterised by cooperative brood care and a division of labour into reproductive and non-reproductive adults, plus overlapping generations.
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- The most advanced of these are species with eusocial colonies;
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- Eusociality appears to have originated from at least three independent origins in halictid bees.
- Bees may be solitary or may live in various types of communities.
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- so it is likely that haplodiploidy contributed to the evolution of eusociality in bees.
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- But, monogamy (queens mating singly) is the ancestral state for all eusocial species so far investigated,
- Conversely, all bees are haplodiploid but not all are eusocial, and among eusocial species many queens mate with multiple males, creating half-sisters that share only 25% of each-other's genes.
- Some eusocial species such as termites are not haplodiploid.
- Haplodiploidy is neither necessary nor sufficient for eusociality.
- This unusual situation has been proposed as an explanation of the multiple (at least nine) evolutions of eusociality within Hymenoptera.
- assuming they would produce similar numbers.
- but they can pass on more of their genes by helping to raise their sisters (as queens) than they would by having their own offspring (each of which would only have 50% of their genes),
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- Workers often do not reproduce,
- more closely related to their sisters than they would be to their own offspring.
- This mechanism of sex determination gives rise to what W. D. Hamilton termed "supersisters",
- Therefore, they share 75% of their genes with each other.
- his daughters (which are diploid, with two copies of each gene) share 100% of his genes and 50% of their mother's.
- Because a male is haploid (has only one copy of each gene),
- In haplodiploid species, females develop from fertilized eggs and males from unfertilized eggs.
- The requirements for eusociality are more easily fulfilled by haplodiploid species such as bees because of their unusual relatedness structure.
- In evolutionary terms, individuals should help relatives when *Cost < Relatedness * Benefit*.
- but also that of close relatives.
- organisms can gain fitness not just through increasing their own reproductive output,