Martin, Stephen J.; Chaˆline, Nicolas; Oldroyd, Benjamin P. - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 5, pp. 839-844
In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood. It is thought that queens mark their eggs with a chemical signal, indicating that their eggs are queen-laid. Worker-laid eggs lack this signal and are, therefore, eaten by...