The metabolic and demographic composition of attine colony-farms

The raw data used for statistical inference regarding attine metabolism (MR, µl CO2 hr^-1) and demography. All masses are dry weight (mg). For Apt. dentigerum and C. longiscapus colony-farms, we did not make separate recordings of garden MR after removing workers. For these two species, we thus present only a whole colony-farm MR measurement. Mass is dry mass in mg. Locality abbreviations: Arizona (A), Barro Colorado Island, Panama (P), Oklahoma (O), Texas (T). Garden mass and MR contains embedded larvae. Notes: * 2 queens, whose individual masses were 0.44 and 0.40 mg, § worker mass includes 16 males (5.84 mg, 19% of total mass), ∫ Queen not removed prior to measurement of worker MR.