Fig. 3
From: Queens stay, workers leave: caste-specific responses to fatal infections in an ant
Mean number of eggs produced in queenright colonies of Temnothorax crassispinus during 3 days before (left) and after (right) the treatment. Both groups decreased their egg laying rate. The reproductive rate of queens infected with Metarhizium brunneum (QRQInf) neither differed from that of control queens (QRCo, QRWInf) before nor after the treatment. The treatment itself seems to result in a reproductive shutdown in queens of all treatment groups. Boxplots show medians, 25 and 75 quartiles, and 95% percentiles