Coercion plays a big role in keeping workers in line in insect societies—in some species, as big a role as family ties do, according to a new study.
In many wasp and bee societies, workers are anatomically equipped to lay their own eggs, but rarely do so while their queen’s alive. Instead, they raise the queen’s offspring.
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