Figure 6.

Nutritional intake positively affected colony reproduction. (a) Nutritional intake (mean ± SE) for lipid, protein, and sugar was higher in colonies that were reproductively “successful,” producing at least one reproductive individual. Asterisks represent statistical difference at p < .05. (b) Nutritional intake of lipid, protein, and sugar was linearly correlated to the number of reproductive individuals produced by “successful” colonies. Nutritional intake was calculated as colony‐level average mg lipid, protein, and sugar foraged per hour (see Section 2 for formula)