Ep 21: Replaying the MP3 of Life
Big Biology
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How Many Individual Beetles Are in a Nest?
How many individual beetles of the same species are in a nest? And do they battle? Do they fight each other? This is ar something that i'm really interested in, which is the population control of these iicoso. As the beetles become a kind of more specialized and socially integrated, their abundance goes down. The cumulative pathnogenusity of the beetles inside the colonies also seems to reproduce.
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