Evolution of worker sterility in honey-bees (Apis mellifera): how anarchistic workers evade policing by laying eggs that have low removal rates

By Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Francis L. W. Ratnieks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Dufour's gland secretion of the queen honeybee (Apis mellifera): an egg discriminator pheromone or a queen signal? (2001, background): “the anarchistic workers to produce a queen-like secretion (Oldroyd and Ratnieks 2000).”
Reproductive conflicts in social animals: who has power? (2003, background): “In rare cases, such as in anarchistic honeybees [ 24 ] and the parasitic strain of the Cape honeybee [25], information about egg maternity is unreliable and, as a result, policing is ineffective.”
Policing in queenless ponerine ants (2001, background): “But there may also be selection for workers to evade policing, as occurs in anarchistic honey-bees (Oldroyd et al. 1994; Oldroyd and Ratnieks 2000; Barron et al., unpublished data).”
The Cape honeybee phenomenon: the sympatric evolution of a social parasite in real time? (2002, background): “Laying workers in anarchistic colonies lay eggs that have low removal rates (Oldroyd and Ratnieks 2000) and contribute considerably to the drone production of such colonies.”
Conflict resolution in insect societies. (2006, background): “However, in other species a lack of information may mean workers are unable to do so (79, 81, 82).”
Worker reproduction in honey-bees (Apis) and the anarchic syndrome: a review (2001, background): “Oldroyd and Ratnieks (2000) caution that such 'sloppy' policing has been investigated in anarchic colonies from the selected line only.”