Research Article

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

Table 3

The relationship between the total number of arrivals to the training station and the average number of foraging trips/forager to the training station, the number of adults in colony, the number of marked foragers foraging at the training station, the number of larvae in the colony, and the duration of the latent phase, using a simple regression analysis.

SourceSlopeAdjusted dfP

Average number of trips/forager3.710.8460.0009
Number of adults0.030−0.1350.594
Number of marked foragers foraging at training station−5.560.2760.108
Number of larvae0.044−0.02360.395
Latent phase (min)2.220.3450.095