Stingless bee foragers experience more thermally stressful microclimates and have wider thermal tolerance breadths than other worker subcastes

The current state of anthropogenic climate change is particularly concerning for tropical insects, species predicted to be the most negatively affected. Researching climatic tolerance in social insects is challenging because adaptations exist at both individual and societal levels. Division of labor research helps to bridge the gap between our understanding of these adaptations at different scales, which is important because social insects comprise a tremendous portion of global animal biomass, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Considering how individual physiologies construct group-level adaptations can improve climate change impact assessments for social species. Tetragonisca angustula is a neotropical stingless bee species that exhibits high worker subcaste specialization with a morphologically distinct soldier caste. We used this species to investigate 1) whether age- and size-differentiated subcastes differ in thermal tolerance, 2) which worker subcaste operates closest to thei..., , , # Data from: Stingless bee foragers experience more thermally stressful microclimates but have wider thermal tolerance breadths than other worker subcastes

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0k6djhb7s](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0k6djhb7s)

## Description of the data and file structure

The uploaded files include two printable 3D designs of iButton housings as well as all datasets used in our analyses. Detailed descriptions of each file are provided below. Temperature is in degrees Celsius.

### Dataset - T ang CT assay

Foragers (F), standing guards (S), and hovering guards (H) from 10 colonies underwent either a CTmax or a CTmin assay (indicated by the header \"Assay\") to assess for within-colony differences in thermal tolerance. Not all individuals were run simultaneously which is indicated by the column header \"Batch\". \"Coma\" indicates the temperature at which the individual lost mobility. \"CT\" indicates the critical temperature defined as the most extreme temperature at which the in...