Survival and productivity benefits of sociality vary seasonally in the tropical, facultatively eusocial bee Megalopta genalis

Tropical habitats are characterized by strong wet and dry seasons, but the effects of seasonality on the costs and benefit of sociality are largely unknown for tropical insects. This is an important gap in our understanding of sociobiology because many social bees and wasps are in the tropics. We fo...

Ausführliche Beschreibung