caste system

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Definition

Social organization in bumble bees with distinct castes including queens, workers, and males that emerge and forage at different times

Related Terms (11)

caste differentiationsocial organizationsocialityeusocialityreproductive division of laborcaste-specific traitsdivision of laborcasteseusocial behaviorsocial behavior

caste system

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Publications (8)

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

What are the bees' needs? Analyzing the diet breadth for three Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

Across Caste Variation of Proboscis Length and Within Caste Phenotype Matching of Subalpine Bumble Bees (<i>Bombus spp.</i>)

The relationship between the distribution of worker sizes and new worker production in the ant Formica neorufibarbis

Solitary behavior in a high-altitude population of the social sweat bee <i></i>Halictus rubicundus<i></i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Related Concepts (10)

Pollinator-Plant Interactions

social aggression

queen signal

foraging efficiency

body size-temperature rule

climatological variability

Institutional controls

Microevolutionary adaptation

Chick survival rates

fertility control

Frequently Associated Species

Hymenoptera

Bombus

Bombus flavifrons

Lasioglossum

Bombus bifarius

Apis mellifera

Bombus terrestris

Bombus impatiens

Polistes

Bombus appositus