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REPLY TO PORTMAN: Mate guarding, sib guarding, and biparental care in bees

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2019

Abstract

Article is a reaction to Portman's summarization of examples of male presence in nests. We discuss existence of male behaviour in nest that regarding mate guarding, sib guarding and biparental care.

Although the existing publications are very interesting, most of them are anecdotal observations based on a few observed individuals and without any rigorous samples that would allow statistical analysis.