Biedermann and Taborsky made a more detailed study of behaviour within the galleries of
X. saxesenii, focusing on the
division of labour. They recorded
six behaviours that they called digging (extending the galleries), cropping (caring for the fungus garden), allogrooming (cleaning each other), balling (compacting waste), shuffling (getting rid of waste), and blocking (protecting from predators and preventing larvae from getting lost).
They found a new form of division of labour rarely found in ants, bees and wasps: division of labour between the adults and the larvae.