Eusocial insects as superorganisms

Figures & data

Figure 1 (A) Mass-specific metabolic rate of honey bees as function of colony mass (data of colonies from;13 data of individual bee is averaged from ref. 30 and 31). (B) Metabolic rate of single mammalian cells as function of body mass (reviewed in refs. 32 and 33).

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