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  2. Communal work - Wikipedia

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    A quilting bee is a form of communal work. Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling, and subbotniks. Different words have been used to ...

  3. Worker bee - Wikipedia

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    In the wintertime, worker bees can cluster together to generate body heat to keep the brood area warm as external temperature decreases. [6] The life span of a worker bee fluctuates between the summer and winter months. In the summertime, worker bees typically only live two to six weeks compared to wintertime when workers can live up to 20 weeks.

  4. Bee learning and communication - Wikipedia

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    Younger bees play a role inside the hive while older bees play a role outside the hive mostly as foragers. Huang's team found that forager bees gather and carry a chemical called ethyl oleate in the stomach. The forager bees feed this primer pheromone to the worker bees, and the chemical keeps them in a nurse bee state.

  5. Eusociality - Wikipedia

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    It is most widespread in the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps) and in Blattodea . A colony has caste differences: queens and reproductive males take the roles of the sole reproducers, while soldiers and workers work together to create and maintain a living situation favorable for the brood. Queens produce multiple queen pheromones to create ...

  6. Beekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Together, Huber and Burnens dissected bees under the microscope, and were among the first to describe the ovaries and spermatheca (sperm store) of queens, as well as the penis of male drones. Huber is regarded as "the father of modern bee-science" and his work Nouvelles Observations sur Les Abeilles (New Observations on Bees) [ 26 ] revealed ...

  7. Cooperation - Wikipedia

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    Cooperation is a process by which the components of a system work together to achieve the global properties. In other words, individual components that appear to be "selfish" and independent work together to create a highly complex, greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts system.

  8. Teamwork - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Teamwork is seen within the framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The four [ clarification needed ] key characteristics of a team include a shared goal, interdependence, boundedness, stability, the ability to manage their own work and internal process ...

  9. Spelling bee - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the word "bee" has been used to describe a get-together for communal work, like a husking bee, a quilting bee, or an apple bee.According to etymological research recorded in dictionaries, the word "bee" probably comes from dialectal "been" or "bean" (meaning "help given by neighbors"), which came from Middle English bene (meaning "prayer", "boon" and "extra service by a tenant to ...