Cue-Mediated Recruitment in a Swarm-Founding Wasp: Successful Foragers Induce Nestmates to Search Off Nest for a Scented Carbohydrate Resource

Table 1

Colony information. For each colony the following are indicated: the colony identification number, dates on which foragers were marked and tested, training scent used, number of combs in the nest, number of adults present at collection (within 36 hrs of end of experiment), total number of foragers marked during the training-marking phase, and the duration of the latent phase. Colony 10028 absconded before it was collected, so it was not possible to count the number of adults on the nest.

Colony	Dates	Training scent	Number of combs	Number of adults	Total marked	Latent phase (min)
10052	June 25-26	cherry	7	2120	93	16
10048	June 28-29	vanilla	7	409	68	10
10029	July 2-3	cherry	7	710	33	25
10014	July 8, 10	vanilla	6	1322	62	24
10028	July 11-12	vanilla	12	NA	66	15
10018	July 15-16	cherry	7	572	36	66
10004	July 21, 23	vanilla	6	462	20	45
Total					378