More Fun Than Fun: Strife in the Harmonious World of Honey Bees, Part 2.

It is a striking irony that the study of strife in honey bee colonies, however rare, is helping us understand how strife is prevented under most conditions. It is often true in biology that we have to break the system or find a naturally occurring dysfunctional situation to understand the functional one. This underscores the need to pay attention to exceptions and results that seem to contradict the prevailing paradigm.