“…Sociality is another predictor of ecological patterns in bees, both because of its role in shaping fitness outcomes and environmental interactions, and because of the sheer diversity of social forms in bees (Michener, 1974;Wcislo and Fewell, 2017). Social bees may be more resilient than solitary bees to some forms of environmental change, due to advantages of communication strategies, resource sharing, and social behavioral thermoregulation (Ostwald et al, 2023). Defining the lexicon to describe bee sociality has been ongoing and contentious endeavor (Costa and Fitzgerald, 1996;Dew et al, 2016;Richards, 2019;Wcislo, 2005Wcislo, , 1997.…”