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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

period worker policing is usually absent, in certain groups of bees it continues. According to the strategy of kin selection, worker policing is not favored...

A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis. The term is used in reference to those who work in all areas of...

of eggs by workers and workers have an incentive to suppress other workers from producing eggs. This phenomenon is known as "worker policing". In Costa...

Therefore, a system of worker and queen policing exists against worker-laid eggs. One form of policing occurs by the oophagy of the worker-laid eggs, found...

Vespula level generalization regarding worker policing. Worker ovary activation, worker laying, and overt queen-worker aggressions have been cited in members...

Jenter kit, walk-away split, Cloake board, and artificial insemination. Worker policing Root, A.I.; Root, E.R. (1980). The ABC and Xyz of Bee Culture. Medina...

Green-beard effect Ploidy Pseudo-arrhenotoky Sexual differentiation Worker policing X chromosome Y chromosome King, R.C.; Stansfield, W.D.; Mulligan, P...

with queen and worker castes. Bombus pratorum queens use aggressive behavior rather than pheromones to maintain dominance over the workers. The queen is...

wasps, worker females will remove eggs laid by other workers due to increased relatedness to direct siblings, a phenomenon known as worker policing. Another...

onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, police officers and members of the general public in acts...

Community policing or community-oriented policing (COP) is a strategy of policing that focuses on developing relationships with community members. It...

loss of a queen, workers will first try to rear a new queen using royal jelly. If this fails, worker policing will decrease and workers will activate their...

Worker policing leads to nearly all eggs laid by workers being eaten. Thus, the queen is usually the mother of all of the first males laid. Workers eventually...

behavioral patterns of this wasp species, especially the behavior of worker policing. Another unique characteristic of this wasp is that it is generally...

by destroying worker-laid eggs, or by showing aggression towards workers attempting to lay eggs through worker policing. Adult worker bees predominantly...

2021-01-20. Helanterä, Heikki; Ratnieks, Francis L.W. (2019). "Worker Conflict and Worker Policing". Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Elsevier. pp. 743–753...

Intelligence-led policing (ILP) is a policing model built around the assessment and management of risk. Intelligence officers serve as guides to operations...

civil policing. Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes. Law enforcement is only part of policing activity. Policing has...

days until her hormonal levels return to normal. Subordinate workers play an important policing role in the selection of future gamergates and are thus able...

direct development. In bees, worker policing occurs to prohibit worker reproduction, whereby workers cannibalize other worker laid eggs. Queen laid eggs...