Fig. 2

Mean number of eggs produced in queenless colonies of Temnothorax crassispinus during 7 days before and after the treatment. Workers infected with Metarhizium brunneum (left) laid significantly fewer eggs than workers of the control group (right) after, but not before the treatment. Boxplots show medians, 25 and 75 quartiles, and 95% percentiles (** p < 0.01 corrected for a false discovery rate: “fdr”)