64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:47 UK GEMINI 2.3 Cockroach aggregation records in the laboratory at 50% and 30% relative humidity 2024-10-14 publication 2024-10-14 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 10.5285/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 doi: McLean, C.J., Fisher, D.N. (2024). Cockroach aggregation records in the laboratory at 50% and 30% relative humidity. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 Records of aggregation formation of four groups of 24 female cockroaches (Blaptica dubia) using the same shelter. Each file covers a single group for a single day. Each line in the data represents the confident detection of a single individual, hence the name of the aggregation/photograph is repeated over multiple lines if there were multiple individuals in that photograph. The cockroaches were kept in an incubator at 50%, then 40%, then 30% relative humidity for four days each. After experiencing the three humidities, groups were randomly re-formed and the run repeated. This was then done twice more, giving four replicates in total (16 unique groups). Cockroaches in the same shelter, and therefore in the same photograph, were assumed to be in the same aggregation and so associating in that instance. These data can be used to understand how patterns of social associations change with humidity. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 McLean, C.J. University of Aberdeen Callum.mclean.research@outlook.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4402-8550 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Fisher, D.N. University of Aberdeen David.fisher@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4444-4450 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Fisher, D.N. University of Aberdeen David.fisher@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4444-4450 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Aberdeen EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Blaptica dubia Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation social behaviour GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour cockroach humidity collective behaviour otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: McLean, C.J., Fisher, D.N. (2024). Cockroach aggregation records in the laboratory at 50% and 30% relative humidity. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 English utf8 biota Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/64467180-c8e0-467e-865a-f42495a89019.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Female cockroaches were obtained from the Evolutionary Ethology Lab stock population, maintained at the University of Aberdeen since 2021. Each female was tagged with two waterproof paper tags using cyanoacrylate glue. We then placed females in groups of 24 and recorded their social associations. Data collection took place from 12/06/23 to 22/09/23. Analysis of images to extract aggregations took place from 30/09/23 to 01/12/23. Quality checking against original laboratory notebooks and reformatting took place from 04/01/24 to 22/02/24.