Guarding and Robbing Behavior in Social Insects from my hive home Watch Video
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Description: When social insects build up food stores, they also have to defend them.In most cases, identifying a foreign individual is simple, such as a bear attacking a beehive.But for many social insects, robbing can also occur from conspecifics: individuals of the same species, but from another colony.This video focuses on guarding and robbing behavior in the honeybee, Apis mellifera.Honeybee robbing behavior can be very destructive, where one hive clears the entire food stores of another hive, o