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> Peter said:
> Perhaps a bee colony can become "top heavy", and lose a certain degree
> of its efficiency, like a large unmanageable company.
Dr. Schmidt-Hemple, in Parasites in Social Insects supports that view.
Large colonies of social insects tend to be more prone toward parasite
infection. However, that is a tradeoff in natural selection, since large
colonies also produce more reproductives.
Randy Oliver
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