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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Aug 14;1(9):1308–1316. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0260-1

Table 3.

Summary of queen numbers allocated to the eight treatment groups in the experiment. Hibernation (long: 12-week; short: 6-week), Pesticide (exposure to thiamethoxam or no exposure) and Parasite (exposure to C. bombi or no exposure) are the three treatments, Infection status indicates the number and percentage for each Parasite group that was successfully infected by the end of the experiment.

Hibernation Pesticide Parasite n Infection n % Infected
Long Pesticide Parasite 31 Infected 20 64.5
Control 27
Control Parasite 29 Infected 18 62.1
Control 27
Short Pesticide Parasite 30 Infected 23 76.7
Control 30
Control Parasite 28 Infected 22 78.6
Control 29