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  2. Communal work - Wikipedia

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    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 describe such gatherings.

  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. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Collaboration - Wikipedia

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    Catalan castellers collaborate, working together with a shared goal. Collaboration (from Latin com-"with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. [1] Collaboration is similar to cooperation.

  7. Stingless bee - Wikipedia

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    The queen is responsible for reproduction, while the workers perform various tasks such as foraging, nursing, and defending the colony. Individuals work together with a well-defined division of labor for the overall benefit. [38] Stingless bees are valuable pollinators and contribute to ecosystem health by producing essential products.

  8. Synergy - Wikipedia

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    [7]: 276 In a technical context, its meaning is a construct or collection of different elements working together to produce results not obtainable by any of the elements alone. The elements, or parts, can include people, hardware, software, facilities, policies, documents: all things required to produce system-level results.

  9. 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.