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. In social insects, workers forego reproduction in favour of foraging and other tasks to promote growth of the whole colony. Maximising individual work effort is limited by the physical constraints on foraging outside the nest. Previous studies of factors influencing activity in social insects suggest that light intensity, ground and air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, wind speed...