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Testing the importance of the distribution of worker sizes to colony performance in the ant species Formica obscuripes Forel
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It is found that experimental colonies whose distributions mimicked the natural distributions retained a larger percentage of colony biomass over three weeks when fed on honeydew, relative to colonies composed of only large or only small workers.
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