Research Article

The Effects of the Social Hierarchy Destabilization on the Foraging Activity of Eusocial Wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus styx Richards, 1940 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae)

Figure 1

Box-plots indicating the means, median, 25th and 75th percentiles and non-outlier range of the data set used to compare the effect of the removals of females according to the hierarchical position. When compared with the control (0), only the removal of higher-ranked females decreased significantly the foraging activity of Mischocyttarus cerberus styx (0: no manipulation; 1: removal of lower-ranked females and 2: removal of higher-ranked females). Statistical significance at the level of 0.05.
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