Appetite for self-destruction: suicidal biting as a nest defense strategy in Trigona stingless bees - Shackleton, Kyle; Toufailia, Hasan Al; Balfour, Nicholas J.; Nascimento, Fabio S.; Alves, Denise A.; Ratnieks, Francis L. W. (Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2015)
Keywords: aggression; altruism; Animal behavior; Animal Ecology; Apis mellifera; appetite; Bees; Behavioral biology; Behavioral Sciences; Bioassays; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Brazil; correlation; defensive behavior; Insects; Life Sciences; nesting; nests; Original Paper; Pain; predation; probability; stingless bees; Suicide; Teeth; Trigona; worker insects; Zoology; Brazil; Nest guards; Stingless bees; Colony defense; Self-destructive behavior; Self-sacrifice; Trigona