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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) minimize the spread of disease by altruistic self-exile and the physical eviction of immune-challenged workers.

See for more information Conroy TE, Holman L (2022) Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 76:32.

Photo credits: Michael Whitehead.