Who needs ‘lazy’ workers? Inactive workers act as a ‘reserve’ labor force replacing active workers, but inactive workers are not replaced when they are removed

• Daniel Charbonneau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: charbonneau.daniel@gmail.com

  Affiliation Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Entomology & Insect Science, University of Arizona, Biological Sciences West, 1041 East Lowell, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9537-4763

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• Takao Sasaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Anna Dornhaus

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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