
Social Insects, Biting Bugs and a Potted History of Honey
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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How to Be a Social Bee
As you get older if you're a bee you get to do different things. You start doing things near the queen which is where you're maybe born originally and you help the queen. As you get older you move further and further away from the center of the hive then eventually towards the end of your life you do risky things. It's not just bees and ants that are social in this way isn't it? Because some spiders do similar things don't they? Yes there are a lot of social insects. Spiders, I'm not only just social you don't get kind of worker spiders as far as I know which don't reproduce. A-fids are like that rather surprisingly so
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