8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:15:51 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris) 2021-12-06 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a 10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a doi: Collins, D.H., Prince, D.C., Donelan, J.L., Chapman, T., Bourke, A.F.G. (2021). Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a Data on worker behaviour, experimental treatment and sampling, queen longevity, queen and colony fecundity and queen morphometrics collected for an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a Collins, D.H. University of East Anglia david.collins@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8619-8158 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Prince, D.C. University of East Anglia d.prince@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2214-9733 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Donelan, J.L. University of East Anglia jen.l.donelan@gmail.com author Chapman, T. University of East Anglia tracey.chapman@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2401-8120 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bourke, A.F.G. University of East Anglia a.bourke@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-8816 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bourke, A.F.G. University of East Anglia a.bourke@uea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-8816 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of East Anglia EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Bombus terrestris Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Animal behaviour costs of reproduction eusociality evolution of ageing life history senescence bumble bee otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Collins, D.H., Prince, D.C., Donelan, J.L., Chapman, T., Bourke, A.F.G. (2021). Life history, behavioural and morphometric data for queens and workers from an experiment manipulating costs of reproduction in bumble bee queens (Bombus terrestris). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a textTable English utf8 biota 2019-03-01 2021-03-31 1.227 1.247 52.616 52.626 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8efcd65a-afd7-4857-a107-9820c732b62a.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The files described in this document contain data collected in Objective 1, Experiment 1 of NERC project NE/R000875/1. We experimentally increased reproduction in Bombus terrestris queens to test whether this would cause them to exhibit a cost to their longevity. We acquired young colonies of B. terrestris and allocated them to two treatments: Removal (R) queens: eggs were removed and counted, therefore inducing queens to increase their fertility and hence experience greater costs of reproduction; and Control (C) queens: eggs were removed, counted, and replaced to control for the disturbance caused by egg removal. We then assessed the queen's longevity in each colony. As egg removal increases worker egg-laying and aggression towards the queen in B. terrestris, we recorded and removed workers displaying these behaviours to ensure they did not affect colony fertility (defined as the number of eggs counted in each colony every two days) and queen longevity. As locomotory activity is affected by ageing in insects, we also monitored queen movement and response to disturbance throughout the experiment. Finally, we collected and sequenced mRNA at timepoints during the experiment that represented 10% (time-point 1, TP1) and 60% (time-point 2, TP2) mortality phases in each treatment.