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Table 1 Number of workers categorised into each type in the reintroduced colonies

From: Individual experience influences reconstruction of division of labour under colony disturbance in a queenless ant species

Original task

Task in the biased colony

Categorised tasks in the reintroduced colony

  

Forager

Nurse

Both tasksa

Non-taska

Forager

Reverted nurse

2

34

13

21

 

Stable forager

84

6

30

17

Nurse

Precocious forager

1

29

5

0

 

Stable nurse

0

15

1

0

  1. aBoth categories are defiend as "undefined" (see Fig. 1a)