Group and individual social network metrics are robust to changes in resource distribution in experimental populations of forked fungus beetles

These data describe patterns of social interaction in 12 experimental populations of Bolitotherus cornutus. Each population experienced both a clumped and an even distribution of bracket fungi resources over two different three-week observation periods (i.e. the resource distribution was switched between observation periods). Social interactions were defined as individuals in close proximity (within 5cm) of one another and were collected through scan sampling three times a day. Behavioral datasets were error-checked to remove all unidentifiable beetles and all impossible or partially recorded interactions. Weigthed individual and group social network metrics were calcualted from observed social interactions using the simple ratio index. Network density was calculated in the R package sna. All other weighted social network metrics were calculated in the R package tnet.