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Environmental and social influences of foraging behaviour and maternal investment with a note on the mating frequency of the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica
This thesis studies how weather and sociality influence the foraging effort input costs of brood production, and that multiple mating contributes to low-group relatedness and non-kin sociality in the Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica. In Chapter 2, using a natural experiment which included …