Infestation was low in brood (0.7% prevalence in of sampled brood cells) and on workers (average abundance = 75.40 mites per colony, SD = 31.6 mites, N = 9).
Pictures of smiling people and happily grazing animals on packaging bear as much relation to reality as did the joyous workers and natural abundance in Stalin-era paintings of Soviet realism.
Nowhere is there so eager a readiness to help, when it is known that help is worthily wanted; nowhere are such armies of devoted workers, nowhere such abundance of means ready to the hand of those who know the need and how rightly to supply it.
And there are no bone awls or needles that would suggest that Neanderthals were skilled leather workers, despite the abundance of animal skins that their hunting would have provided.Signs of division of labour come only with the arrival of modern humans into Europe around 40,000 years ago.
Today, after one of history's most brutal downsizings, it takes just two agricultural workers out of 100 workers to supply an abundance of food to a nation more than three times as large.
As other countries see their labor costs go up, the Philippines will remain competitive due to the sheer abundance of workers joining the labor force".
For Trachymyrmex and Acromyrmex, bacteria were isolated from garden-tending workers carrying the largest abundance of Pseudonocardia on their cuticle [37; 61].
The elevated Or abundances in worker antennae of ants, together with their substantially larger chemoreceptor repertoires, suggest a higher chemosensory ability of ant workers which is concordant with the more complex ant chemical communication systems.
The fact that the actinomycete bacterium is most abundant on the major workers tending the garden has been used to support its role in garden hygiene as well as the observation of increased bacterial abundance on workers from colonies experimentally infected with Escovopsis.
Each plastic cup contained 150±1 mg of fungus garden, three minor workers, and three major workers covered with Pseudonocardia bacteria (abundance scores 10 12 in [65]).
