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From: The evolution of activity breaks in the nest cycle of annual eusocial bees: a model of delayed exponential growth

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Development of worker and sexual numbers with and without a break. Different activity breaks can result in a decrease (b, d) or an increase in the overall production of sexuals (c). Model parameters: worker efficiency c = 0.7, off-break survival q = 0.95, development time T = 20, season length L = 100 and within-break survival Q = 0.985. The parameters B1 and B2 printed above each graph denote the onset and end of the break in question.

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