Daily activity time series of ants, Camponotus japonicus

# Daily activity time series of ants, Camponotus Japonicus [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c866t1gcp](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c866t1gcp) Using an RFID tag system (SK-Electronics CO., Ltd., Japan), we obtained the count data for five colonies of ants, Camponotus japonicus, collected from the Higashi-Hiroshima campus of Hiroshima University. The colonies A, B, and C contained a queen ant, but the others, D and E, were without one. For each colony, almost 150 workers attached the RFID tag on their thoraxes with resin glue (Kiyohara UVR, KIYOHARA & Co., Ltd.) without exposure to CO2. The observation started one week after the workers attached RFID tags to avoid observing the adjustment state of workers. The RFID reader was installed on the tube's roof, connecting each colony's nest chamber and the foraging arena. ## Description of the data and file structure There are five CSV files corresponding to each colony's name described above. The first column is an index of workers in a colony, and the first rows after the second column represent the day observed count data for each worker. The other cells at the ith row and the jth column represent the count data of the ith worker on the jth day.

# 日本弓背蚁（Camponotus Japonicus）每日活动时序数据集 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c866t1gcp](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c866t1gcp)
采用日本SK电子株式会社（SK-Electronics CO., Ltd.）的RFID标签系统，我们从广岛大学东广岛校区采集了5个日本弓背蚁（Camponotus japonicus）蚁群的活动计数数据。其中蚁群A、B、C均含有蚁后，而蚁群D、E无蚁后。我们使用树脂胶（Kiyohara UVR，KIYOHARA株式会社）在近150只工蚁的胸部粘贴RFID标签，全程未对工蚁施加二氧化碳麻醉。为避免观测到工蚁的适应调整状态，观测于标签粘贴一周后正式启动。RFID阅读器安装于连接各蚁群巢室与觅食竞技场的通道顶部。
## 数据与文件结构说明
本数据集包含5个CSV文件，分别对应上述5个蚁群。文件第一列为蚁群内工蚁的索引，第二列及之后的列项代表各观测日的工蚁计数数据。第i行第j列的单元格数据，代表第i只工蚁在第j日的活动计数。