Species Spotlights
Vulture Bees
Typically sterile members of the population
What is workers?
The term for individuals who function as a cohesive unit
What is a superorganism?
Bee species impacted by colony collapse disorder
Honeybees
What is family groups?
Ants that have a caste that stores nectar for the colony
Honeypot ants
Name 3 types of workers
Foragers, nurses, soldiers, builders/nest workers, scouts, or guards.
The two mammal eusocial species
Naked role mat and the damarland mole rat
Name 2 threats to eusocial species
Pesticides, insecticides, habitat loss, coral bleaching, deforestation, colony collapse disorder
Tarantulas and Tigers
What is solitary living animals?
Primitively Eusocial wasps that don't have distinct castes
Paper castes
Name 3 reproductive castes
Queens, kings, drones, alates, neotonics, dispersers
The order with the most eusocial species (includes ants, bees, and wasps)
Hymenoptera
Two most endangered groups of eusocial species
Snapping shrimp and bee species
What is primitive eusocial species?
How are tasks assigned amongst Formosan termites?
By age
Naked mole rat morphs who escape their colonies
Dispersers
2 advantages to being eusocial
Resources, higher fitness, defense, easier to reproduce, bigger populations, easier to adapt, reduction of disease spread.
2 ways to help conserve eusocial species
Use alternative methods of pesticides/insecticides, and advocation!
Colonies can be in the millions, have morphologically distinct castes
Advanced eusocial species
Why are snapping shrimp considered parasites?
They inhabit sponges and eat their cells
Winged termites who start their own colonies
Alates
The three traits of eusocial species
What insect could be the cause of colony collapse disorder?
Mites which suck bees blood.
Why aren't animals grouped into types of societies like taxonomic levels?
Grey areas exist between them
Many species could fit into multiple