The Forces That Determine the Size of Groups (“Swarms”) of Social

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Essay

The forces that determine the size of groups (“swarms”) of social insects and the rates at which they grow are not well understood. Biologists have observed large variability in the size of swarms across species. In a study of the social wasp, Polybia occidentalis, investigators dismantled a nest of these insects and marked a few insects for future identification in new swarms. Twenty-five days after dismantling the original swarm they had located new swarms of wasps from the original colonies.
-Using your box plots , compare the distributions of first and second yeardrones. Justify your comparisons by appealing to specific aspects of the box plotsconstructed in

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