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Social insect biology
the removal of eggs laid by workers, or aggression toward egg-laying workers, by other workers in an insect colony.In social insect biology, worker policing refers to the removal of eggs laid by workers, or aggression toward egg-laying workers, by other workers in an insect colony. This meaning comes from Ratnieks (1988) in The American Naturalist.[1]