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- adjective bees In the subfamily Xylocopinae of
carpenter bees.
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He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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