. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Social Biology of Mischocyttarus drewseni • Jeanne 111. Figure 11. Domination and submission of queens 10 and 103 of colony 342. (See Fig. 9 for explanation of presentation. The data span the passing of the queenshlp from 10 to 103. 5. Changing of Domination In all where were sufficiently regular to pro\ide data for calculating rates of domination, the super- seded queens were dominating at very low rates when they were ejected. This was true of no. 1 and no. 8 on colony 268 (Fig. 9), no. 1
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Social Biology of Mischocyttarus drewseni • Jeanne 111. Figure 11. Domination and submission of queens 10 and 103 of colony 342. (See Fig. 9 for explanation of presentation. The data span the passing of the queenshlp from 10 to 103. 5. Changing of Domination In all where were sufficiently regular to pro\ide data for calculating rates of domination, the super- seded queens were dominating at very low rates when they were ejected. This was true of no. 1 and no. 8 on colony 268 (Fig. 9), no. 1 on 174 (Fig. 10), and no. 10 on 342 (Fig. 11). The rate of domination of the superseding (|ueen, on the other hand, was usually high at the time she ejected the old queen. This was especialh' true of no. 8 on 268 and no. 103 on ,'342 (Fig. 11). though less tnie of no. ;36 of 268 (Fig. 9) and no. 26 of 174 (Fig. 10). Also, toward the end of a queen's reign, her younger off- spring showed more dominance than did those who were young at the beginning of her term. This was especially clear during the reign of no. 8 on 268 and no. 1 on 174 (Figs. 9 and 10). The rate of domination by no. 1, the foundress of 268, was much lower than that for superseding queens (Fig. 9). B\- the time she had offspring to dominate, she had put in five weeks of queen and worker duties combined and could well have been exhausted. If this low rate of domination is typical of foundresses, then this is evi- dence that no. 1 on 174 was not the foundress, since her rate of domination was as high as that for superseding queens (Fig. 10). Indeed, by the time no. 1 was superseded by no. 26, colonv' 174 was about 130 days old, much more than the average life span of queens, so it is likely that no. 1 was at least the second queen. 6. Sex of the Offspring of Superseding Queens Only three superseding queens took over early enough in the cycle of their colonies for their eggs to produce adult offspring. These were
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