 However, through Tom Wenseleers' "Caste Conflict Hypothesis," it is believed that dwarf queens are evolutionarily advantageous in that they develop in order to avoid becoming a worker bee.Their role was found to become the head of a colony in the absence of viable, full-sized queens.The roles of the worker bee in "S. quadripunctata" include the maintenance and protection of larvae (queen, dwarf, or worker) placed within the brood cells.