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Spatial autocorrelation in total tick number estimated by Moran's I (Sokal and Oden, 1978). Data are from the first visit in the colony and include nests of both treatments. Ten distance classes representing 10 m between marked nests have been defined. No index value was significantly different from zero. The same results were obtained using female count data only (results not shown).
