[3] These chemicals produce can communicate certain things such as age, sex, reproductive status, caste, and which colony the individual is from.

[3][6] Through olfactory senses and cuticular lipids produced by F. varia, guard nests are able to differentiate and either accept or reject individuals.

[3] There is a difference in the number and chemical makeup of the hydrocarbons in worker and male bees.

[10][11] These bees are able to use the urban environments to gain access to many different species of flowering plants.

However, many worker bees generally collected from three species of flowering plants, Delonix regia, Poincianella pluviosa, and Ceiba speciosa.

This finding has potential to adding to our pharmaceutical industry producing an antibiotic that can help fight bacterias such as Aeromonas hydrophila, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus[13].