Research Article

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

Table 4

One-Way ANOVA results for the removal of females according to the social rank (control: no experimental manipulation, manipulation 1: removal of lower-ranked females, and manipulation 2: removal of higher-ranked females).

One-Way ANOVA
EffectsDfAnova SSMean squareF valueP

Manipulation22.441.2210.14<0.001
Error212.510.12

Post hoc comparisons (Dunnett’s t-test)
 Control versus manipulation 1
 Control versus manipulation 2***

*** Significance at the 0.05 level.