structural:summarization
Sociality

There is some degree of variability of sociality between individuals. Like a great many other social insects, A. mellifera engages in trophallaxis. When the duration of trophallaxis pairings was measured, it was found that like human social interactions, there are durable long-term trends for each individual bee. There is less inter-individual variation than found in humans however, possibly reflecting the higher genetic relatedness between hivema