Insects such as bees and ants use it to produce their drones, for example.

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Bees and ants are great at it, but they can only do it because they are all sisters.

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Dubbed "coralbots", they are being designed to work in groups, in a similar manner to bees and ants.

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For those who have a history of anaphylactic reactions to insects, vaccines are available for yellow jackets, wasps, honey bees and fire ants, Bassett said.

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The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.

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This is because they contain only one complement of chromosomes, which is the signal in bees, ants and wasps that an embryo should develop into a male.

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He had no argument with its work on bees, wasps, and ants, he said.

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Ants, bees and wasps form complex communities but do not seem to rely on facial characteristics for their communication.

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Ants and bees prove remarkably adept at marshaling the collective intelligence of the hive to solve common and complex problems.

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The most conspicuously selfless are the social insects, the ants, bees and wasps in which most individuals work tirelessly for the good of the colony and never reproduce themselves.

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