Workers dominate male production in the neotropical bumblebee Bombus wilmattae (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Table 2 Genetic colony structure of the five B. wilmattae colonies.

Colonies	collecting date	N_w/N_m	m _obs *	n _w	n _m	n_pw+nde	p _Ae
C1	14 Dec 2005	75/67	2	24	24	4 + 0.09	0.125
C2	04 Dec 2008	314/243	1	23	24	7 + 0.74	0.031
C3	10 Dec 2005	345/470	1	24	22	6 + 0.18	0.250
C4	23 Nov 2005	52/120	2	22	21	6 + 0.49	0.250
C5	19 Nov 2005	141/145	1	23	24	7 + 0.26	0.063

The collecting date of the analyzed colonies, number of workers (N_w) and males (N_m) recorded either after the death of the queen (C1 and C3-5) or directly after excavating and dissecting (C2), number of observed matings (m_obs) [*[19]], number of genotyped workers (n_W) and males (n_m), estimated number of workers producing own male offspring (n_pw) corrected for the non-detection error (nde) based on a Poisson distribution and probability of assigning worker offspring as queen offspring (p_Ae)

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