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Subject:	Re: Terminology
From:	Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:26:11 -0400
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> In honey bees, there are two morphological castes--the queen and the workers, as well as additional physiological and behavioral subcastes of the worker caste.

Right, as Seeley wrote in 1982:

It is now clear that there are 5 female
castes in a honeybee colony: the queen (reproductive
caste) plus 4 age subcastes among the workers
(cell cleaning caste, broodnest caste, food storage
caste, and forager caste). 

Actually, the caste structure was essentially revealed in
1953 by Sakagami's study of honeybee age polyethism

Adaptive Significance of the Age Polyethism Schedule in Honeybee Colonies
Behav Ecol Sociobiol (1982) 11:287-293

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