I wrote:

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> The bee is not the unit, but the colony. Individual colonies can develop resistance strategies over time... A learned behavior could provide a survival advantage ...



Following this thread, and before someone suggests that I am conflating cellular immunity and social immunity:



> The cellular RNA transformation of bacterial cells has already been discussed … in connection with the well established field of genetic transformation of bacterial cells by DNA. Several important cellular RNA-induced ‘transformations’ or changes of animal cells have also been described. These changes can be classified into four major groups: (a) changes which seem to be related to cellular differentiation; (b) changes resulting in specific antibody formation; (c) changes resulting in cellular immunity; and (d) changes which seem to be the result of the transfer of a specific item of learned behavior. These four groups should not be considered as mutually exclusive. 



Dubes, George R. "The Changing of Cellular Activities by Treatment with Cellular Ribonucleic Acids." Methods for Transfecting Cells with Nucleic Acids of Animal Viruses: a Review. Birkhäuser Basel, 1971. 67-70.



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