Data underlying the publication: "Corpse removal increases when honey bee colonies experience high Varroa destructor infestation" 
10.1007/s00040-020-00789-y

Authors: Frank van Langevelde, Fionne Kiggen, Coby van Dooremalen, Bram Cornelissen

Address of corresponding author F. van Langevelde:
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Frank.vanLangevelde@wur.nl

***General Introduction***
This dataset contains data collected during an experiment at Wageningen University & Research. 
It is being made public to act as supplementary data for the publication Insectes Sociaux.

***Purpose of the experiment***
Parasites can strongly affect honey bee colonies. We studied undertaking behaviour, which is critical for colony hygiene. 
It is known that more corpses in the colony result in more or more experienced undertakers. It is unknown what will happen with 
corpse removal when the colony is exposed to high parasite load, causing more deaths and lower body conditions of the bees. 
We added dead bees in colonies with either high or low infestation levels of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor. 
We found that colonies with high varroa load removed more corpses after the start of the experiment than colonies with low varroa load, 
and they also used less time until task completion. Our results show that undertaking is not impaired when the colony suffers from high parasite load, 
which is crucial to maintain social resilience.

***Description of the data in this data set***
The data is split into 3 files that were used to do the statistical tests underlying the 3 figures. For each figure, the data is given ("Data Figure X.txt") and its explanation
in a separate file ("Legend Data Figure X.txt"). 
