It's a little sloppy to use the language "make up for it" which makes it sound like they are compensating. The hypothesis they present is that perhaps the bees

It's a little sloppy to use the language "make up for it" which makes it sound like they are compensating. The hypothesis they present is that perhaps the bees don't learn how not to react to other bees with the suggestion that this might make them more "distractable" (my word) from the task at hand, so ADHB and as a small point, suggesting that they "blossomed into social butterflies"...?