Fig. 5
From: Social control of egg-laying in independently nest-founding bumble bee queens
Influence of brood on queen egg-laying behavior. Part A (Experiment 1a): The oldest brood in the nest when queens exited the pause (i.e., re-initiated egg-laying), based on our first experiment (n = 62 queens). X-axis, the oldest brood type present in the nest at re-initiation; Y-axis, the number of nests. Part B (Experiment 4): Number of days until re-initiation of egg-laying in brood addition experiment (n = 30 queens). X-axis, brood type artificially added; Y-axis, the number of days between brood addition and the first day new eggs were observed in the nest. Means and standard error are shown. The letters represent significant differences between treatment groups based on emmeans pairwise comparison for both parts A and B of the figure