Competitive males have higher quality sperm in a monogamous social bee

Table 1 Comparing males collected inside colonies with males collected at aggregations

Colony	Number of marked males	Number of marked males collected inside the colonies	Number of marked males collected at aggregations	Proportion of marked males collected at aggregations (%)
1	507	31	51	10
2	461	30	32	7
3	362	30	24	6
4	110	26	2	2
5	77	2	1	1

Assessing mating success 2: persistence in aggregations
Data are presented for number of marked males, number of marked males collected inside the colonies 15 days after marking, and number and proportion of males collected at aggregations during the 2 weeks of inspection

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