Editing Worker bee (section)

== Gut bacteria ==
The workers perform different behavioral tasks in the colony that cause them to be exposed to different local environments. The worker gut microbial community composition is found to be associated with the behavioral tasks they perform, therefore also with the local environment they are exposed to<ref>{{cite journal|title=The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees|journal = Insectes Sociaux|volume = 65|issue = 3|pages = 419–429|author=Julia C. Jones, C. Fruciano, J. Marchant, F. Hildebrand, S. Forslund, P. Bork, P. Engel, W. O. H. Hughes|date=May 2018|doi=10.1007/s00040-018-0624-9|pmid = 30100619|pmc = 6061168}}</ref> and the environmental landscape is shown to affect the gut microbial community (gut microbiota composition) of honey bees.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Gut microbiota composition is associated with environmental landscape in honey bees|journal = Ecology and Evolution|volume = 8|issue = 1|pages = 441–451|author=Julia C. Jones, C. Fruciano, F. Hildebrand, H. Al Toufalilia, N.J. Balfour, P. Bork, P. Engel, F.L.W. Ratnieks, W.O.H. Hughes|date=Nov 2017|doi=10.1002/ece3.3597|pmid = 29321884|pmc = 5756847| bibcode=2018EcoEv...8..441J }}</ref>