0 living in colonies (= groups) with one animal or group producing young and the others working to care for them: --
Like virtually all ants, they are eusocial, but their social behaviour is poorly developed compared to other species.
The reproducing females would still have a source of nutrition and be able to continue reproductive cycles which are crucial in eusocial colonies.
Communal and solitary species are usually limited to short breeding seasons, and facultative eusocial species are represented in more various environments.
Unlike other eusocial bees, they do not sting, but will defend by biting if their nest is disturbed.
Eusocial insect societies have all the characteristics of a semisocial one, except overlapping generations of adults cohabit and share in the care of young.
The orchid bees include a number of primitively eusocial species with similar biology.
They have characteristics of both the eusocial and the solitary wasps.
Worker policing has been suggested as a form of coercion to promote the evolution of altruistic behavior in eusocial insect societies.
