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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...
AbstractIn models of insectpathogen interactions, the transmission parameter () is the term that describes the efficiency with which pathogens are transmitted between hosts. There are two components to the transmission parameter, namely the rate at which the host encounters pathogens (contact rate) and the rate at which contact between host and pathogen results in infection (host susceptibility)....
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